CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 65

sibility of this & other pretension of it will

well to ark them to intimate & s macie to the Chinese

through

au minista at tin

One more

be

government

point in connexion with administration should & specially Noticed a that is the village febreits

Trifinals

Hee This subject is referred to on

12

(

Ju

Ew

St

page. 14 of the despatch under Local goverment.

and in Appendix

"Judicial, and in

no.6.

at as to

p. 28 will be found a report haw it is proposed to apply pass an ordinance on the model'

the Ceylon 2 Village Communities ordinance

It is news to me that in China theis

it in Collom as we know it is d tystern exists, such help thinking that there is some

radical difference

and I cannot

I mean that the

village community is not a unit in China ka like the Mir in Russia

in the villages a

If the village community in Calm; MiLockhart but I am writing without knowledge I should be inclined not to pass any ordinance just at present of Certainly not to legalisé flogging

however tells me that he thinks the system is mund. the same as in (gland his thin akeisers tell him that the Cegion

trita schu, modif -calims will init tep

I think the frondelin of My Village

will har

kh

Extablished

by adiner In thing will hav

leah

after the

fe and

pawas, but to allow whatever is in

existence to continue

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62

not too barbarous

for some months; a eventually the ordinanc in question can if the let necessary and with such modifications as shall be thought necessary be passed Turning now to points in the report

with which the Foreign office

Concerned

are

The convention funides

and the Order in Council recognises

be incon-

Hat with except so far as may ・sistent with military requirements for

defence of Hongkong

the

the Chinese

fficials who are now stationed within The City of Kastoon shall continue to

furisdiction there.

One of M2 Lockhart's photographe shows

the

y

City 9,

Kowloon such as is set out

In Six W. Hamilton's minute" and

described in

pages

18 and

199

The matter will, it may

& all we

his

be

have to

uport. hoped, settle its fo do is to ask the Doreign office to

call upon

the Chinese governement to

take awar

the troughs the city then