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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 1.
THURSDAY, 24TH JANUARY, 1901.
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HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(Sir HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE, G.C.M.G.).
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His Excellency Major-General WILLIAM JULIUS GASCOIGS2, C.M.G, General Officer Commanding.
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G.).
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the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN, Q.C.).
the Colonial Treasurer, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).
the Director of Public Works. (Robert Daly ORMSBY).
the Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.).
BASIL TAYLOR, (Acting Harbour Master).
CATCHICK PAUI. CHATER, C.M.G.
Ho Kai, M.B., C.M.
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
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RODERICK MACKENZIE GRAY,
The Council met pursuant to summons.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 17th December, 1900, were read and confirmed. His Excellency the Governor addressed the Council as follows:-
Honourable Members of the Legislative Council,--I have summoned you to-day to make to you formally the saddest announcement that has ever been made during the exist ence of this Colony-to aunounce to you that our revered and beloved Queen is dead. In During a long reign begun before any Member of this Council was born. Her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, the purest and greatest monarch of historic times, devoted her life to the welfare
Never was monarch more faithful, never was monarch more beloved. of her country. her letter of the 27th January, 1892, when acknowledging in touching and noble words the expression of loyal and loving sympathy from all classes of the empire on the occasion of the death of the Duke of Clarence, the Queen wrote:-"My bereavements, during the last 30 Though the labours, anxieties, and responsibilities years of reign, have indeed been heavy. inseparable from my position have been great, yet it is my earnest prayer that God may continue to give me health and strength to work for the good and happiness of my dear And God has granted her prayer, for to the last the And now country and empire while life lasts." Queen preserved those marvellous powers and royal gifts of wisdom and foresight which were always exercised in the interests of the peace and progress of the world. the gracious monarch of the greatest nation on earth; the perfect Queen, the stainless wife, the devoted mother has entered into her rest crowned with the triple diadem of strength and Within the truth and purity, and enveloped in the loving veneration not alone of all the peoples of her world-wide empire but of the great mass of the thinking people of the world. last hour I have received the following two telegrams :-
In the name of the people of Portuguese India and mine, I present to your Excellency the respects of our heartfelt grict for the great loss which the noble British nation has sustained by the demise of the Queen Empress, Victoria of everlasting
memory.
GALHARDO, Governor.” present to your Excellency the expressions of my "With the greatest regret deep grief, and in the name of this Colony I accompany all the English people in their dolour by the death of Her Gracious Majesty the Queen Empress,,
GOVERNOR of Macao."
For us as representing this Colony it but remains humbly to lay at the fect of their Majes- ties, whom God protect, our expressions of loyal condolence, and for that purpose I propose the following resolution :-
That the Members of this Council have heard with profound sorrow the sað announcement of the death of Her Majesty the Queen, and desire humbly to express their most heartfelt, loyal, and respectful sympathy with their Majesties and the Royal Family in their bereavement."
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