CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9] — Page 17

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To His Excellency the Governor.

All the inhabitants of the territory look up to you with

reverence and hope.

In the summer of the twenty-fourth year of the

reign of His Imperial Chinese Majesty (1898) it was decreed

that the territory in the neighbourhood of Kowloon in the San

On District should be leased to Her Majesty the Queen of Great

Britain.

At the beginning of the present year, Sir Henry

Blake was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen, Governor of

Hong Kong and its Dependencies.

It is well known to all that since Hong Kong

became a British Colony and since the establishment at Shanghai

of a British Settlement, these two places have become the abodes

of peace and prosperity, and their inhabitants are filled with

songs of praise. This is due to the people residing there having

enjoyed to the full the great benefits of just Government

which has been able to transform places formerly insignificant

into a land of happiness.

Happy is the lot which has now fallen to the

Kowloon