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for increased representation in the

Legislative Council; and it maý ve

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no other reason to choose the new member for the

Executive Council from outside the Legislative Council

which would effect a real increase in representation.

the Hong Kong Daily Press

I attach a lender from

the Editor of whien is a new man lately arrived from

England imbued with somewhat advanced ideas, on the

subject of certain questions in the Legislative

Council whichs I will refer to later.

I think that the point of most importance in the

paragraph in ar Chamberlain's despatch above referred

to, is that the cheiod of an unofficial member of

the Executive Council should be inspired

"by

consideration of personal merit and have no

reference to a particular class" to use the words of

Mr Chamberlain, and it is from that point of view

that I venture to submit the name of Mr E,H. Sharp K.Ĉ.

Mr 3.H. Sharp was called to the English Bar in 1891

and was admitted to the Hong Kong Bar in 1894.

Be at once made his mark

masterly lawyer and

while the late Er J.J.Francis was alive ne shared the

leading practice of the Bar with that eminent Counsel.

After Er Francis ' death he WRI leader of the Bar

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