33 School" at Kiaochow as an embryo University and that the Imperial Government has voted a sum of £30,000 for the Buildings and of £7,500 per annum for maintenance.
I venture to submit to Your Lordship that if His Majesty's Government will in a like manner extend its support to the scheme I have had the honour to lay before you, the prospective advantages both Commercial and Political are such as will amply justify the expenditure. The Colonial Revenues at the present time do not admit of any substantial grant to this scheme. The prospective decrease due to the policy of His Majesty's Government in regard to Opium, and the heavy strain imposed by the building of the Railway at a time of great local depression in trade cripple alike the resources of Government and of private individuals in this small Community.
I am confident that the inauguration of a University here which will bring the sons of eminent Chinese to the Colony (which in after life they will regard as their Alma Mater) and which will bring their parents also to visit them will prove a source of prosperity to Hongkong. But I am equally convinced that the benefits will not be confined to or even primarily affect this Colony, but will extend to British interests throughout the Far East. Sir John Jordan, Sir A. Hosie, the Cons:
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School" at Kiaochow as an embryo University and that the
Imperial Government has voted a sum of £30,000 for the
Buildings and of £7,500 per annum for maintenance.
I
venture to submit to Your Lordship that if His Majesty's
Government will in a like manner extend its support to the
scheme I have had the honour to lay before you, the pros-
-pective advantages both Commercial and Political are
such as will amply justify the expenditure. The Colonial
Revenues at the present time do not admit of any substanti-
-al grant to this scheme The prospective decrease due to
the policy of His Majesty's Goverment in regard to Opium,
and the heavy strain imposed by the building of the Railway
at a time of great local depression in trade cripple alike
the resources of Government and of private individuals in
this small Community. I am confident that the inauguration
of a University here which will bring the sons of eminent
Chinese to the Colony (which in after life they will
regard as their Alma Mater) and which will bring their
parents also to visit them will prove a source of prosperi-
-ty to Hongkong. But I am equally convinced that the
benefits will not be confined to or even primarily affect
this Colony, but will extend to British interests through-
-out the Far East. Sir John Jordan, Sir A. Hosie, the
Cons:1-
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