CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 553

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presented to us during the year, a larger number, in my

opinion, thin some of the critics of the present system

give us credit for. I speak for my foreign colleagues

and myself.

I need hardly say that I personally lose no

opportunity of bringing the unsatisfactory state of

affairs above described to the Notice of the Figh Pro-

vincial Authorities. At a recent interview with the Vice-

roy I strongly urged upon is Excellency the necessity of appointing one or more experienced officials of Taotai rank to Centon, whose business it would be to deal with the more important international and commercial caBOB,

fur son

An appointment of this kind, in the paints of a chino she ssu ( )or Commissioner for Foreign Af- fairs has, I beliove, beun made in some Provincial capitals, but no one has as yet been appointed to Canton in

this capacity.

I have not suggested the formation of a mixed Court, because, under present conditione, the disadvan-

tages attaching to such a tribunal outweigh, in my opinion,

its