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At the meeting of the KINDER Legislative Council on

Thursday, November 9th., before proceeding with business lis

Excellency made the following statement:-

Gentlemen,

Before I deal with the subject under consideration,

it will no doubt be of interest to the Council if I inform them

of the latest news which has reached me of the absorbing events

which are occurring on the other side of our frontier. His

Majesty's Consul-General has just telegraphed to me that at

1 a.m. last night the city of Canton declared itself an adherent

of the new party, a declaration in which His Excellency the Governor General concurred in the hope of preventing IX

terrible bloodshed. His Excellency has, however, decided to leave wanton and seek a very temporary asylum in Hongkong. It is

a British tradition that hospitality is never refused to those

who seek it in distress, and I have every confidence that the

Chinese community of bis Colony, whatever their political

sympathies may be, will be glad to afford hospitality to a

guest who was lately a high official, who has done his utmost to

prevent bloodshed, and has, so far as we can judge, been wonder-

-fully successful in his efforts to this end.