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Neither can I hold out Staff by 3 Sister, and in the circum- HOUSES TO LET any such hope, for I conceive that stances I put it the Council that a in the case of Hongkong, Repres|Commission of Eluiry was not neces THE OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE;

sentative Government on whatever mry. The mover, da the resolution pre- form of franchise it might be based, ferred to ask for a division, on which it At the meeting of the Hongkong

and with whatever supposed safe in fraa that the unofficial members voted guards as to the Executive power, on one side and the official menibera and Legislative Council yesterday there would be wholly out of place, the General Officer Commanding on the spondence relating to the petition for D. It scarcely seems necessary for me to other. But I think any impartial person kendorse these weighty pronouncements of would come to the conclusion that in this greater representation of the public!on eminent Administrators and Statesmen, maiter the Government did not treat the Exceptive and Legislative Councils except to point out that it is quite im the unofficial members in an adverse and wedding practicable to apply the principle of hostile spirit instead of taking them into was placed on the table. We have nut election to appointments to a body like their counsel and co-operation," to uso room for the whole of it, but we give the the Executive Council. This is a question Mr. Pollock's words. Moreover, I un con- most important portions of it :———which has not been previously raised in vinced that the other unofficial members this Colony, and it does not seem neces-

did not consider that they were being so Government House, Hongkong, sary to set out the very obvious reasons treated. I append a memorandum in 26th May, 1010. for which such a proposal could not be which I have explained in detail the BI have the bonour to transmit the entertained. But I would briefly draw circunstances under which vacancies have enclosed copy of a lorter addressed by the attention to the nature, of the electorate occurred in the Nursing Staff und the Hon, Mr. H. E, Pollock, KC, to the to whom the petitioners would confine the steps taken to fill them, Colonial Heeretary covering copies of a election of all the unofficial members of letter addressed under the date of the the Executive Council and of eight out could have been taken to cope with an 9th of March direct to you by Mr. Follock of ten of the unofficial majority in the abnormal situation created by the war. and of a petition signed by a number of Legislative Council

It is true that leave cannot now be British residents in this Colony praying The census for 1011 shows that the total | granted to two Sisters who have just for greater representation of the Public | population was 136,730, composed of 12,075 become due for it under the new system on the Executive and Legislative Coun- non-Chinese and 444,604 Chinese, and that of leave after 4 instead of 5 years service, cils together with the accompanying at that time the British male adult civil But the Matron returned in March from copy of correspondence belarren the population numbered 1,040 -- a years leave and one Sister is absent Colonial Secretary and Mr. Pollock on From the same census the following on a year's leave. One of the Sisters now. the subject of certain points in the letter figures in respect of the civil population i due for leave was given at her own TE- which he Ens addressed to you. “I have in 11 are deduced' —

quest 4 months leave to Europe at the not dealt earlier with this matter because

end of 1914, but eventually she did not I was waiting to learn whether you wish

370 Lake th feuve, though it was pointed out ed for my opmounts on the communica

that it was desirable that she should take tions sent, as they were, direct to you.

the leave, when it was convenient to the 2. The patitioners ask that two addi

Government tional unofficial members may be added to the Executive Council, one to be elected by the Chamber of Commerce and the other by the Non-cficial Justices of the l'east, and that any future vacancies on the Council may be filled by election by one of those bodies. No reasons are ad- duced for this change in the constitution except that the two bodies mentioned

It is proposed by the have long been recognised as the franchise ahqudd bs given to the presentatives of the public for electoral members of the Hongkong General Cham purposes,

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3. The petitioners also ask that an unofficial majority he created in the Legislative Council by increasing the number of unofficial members from 0 to 10 and that all except Chinese members may be elected, haff of them by the Chamber of Commerce and half of them by the Non-official Justices of the Peace:

In support of this alteration in the constitution the only arguments adduced are (4) that official members of the Council are not free to vote according to their convictions and (b) that the un- official members are in a permanent and hopeless minority because the Governor can command the votes of the official members.S

(.) Male adult British subjects

of Portugucas race sujet (6) Male adult British subjects

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advocated by the petitioners should be discarded for one consisting of Special and Common Jurors, with certain addi- tions. The other, that to the ten unofficial members of Legislative Council asked for by the petitioners there should be added 2. nominated Chinese members. I refräin from comment upon these suggestions, as I have no means of knowing whether they represent the views of any respons- ible person or persons prepared to submit such changes for your consideration. Nor do I propose to criticise the articles from the local and from the Shanghai Press since they contain no point not covered by the fundamental objections to any form of self-government, in this

→| 30. În paragraph 8 of his letter Mr. (Note: Of these about 25 are not even Pollock hazards the opinion that the The first is a well-worn but weak argu- British subjects)

Government sent to Press some of the mort, for it is obviously impracticable to

correspondence concerning the petition of allow Government officers to vote against

1894 in the hope that they would ad- measures introduced by the Government,

versely affect the signing of the petition. OFFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Build- The second has little real weight. If 6 I will turn now to the covering letter The Government had no such unworthy weighty examples existed of the over which Mr. Pollock has addressed to you. motive. In asking the Press to publish riding of popular opinion by the I do not know how far Mr. Pollok the correspondence it acted ruerely on a arbitrary exercise of the official rufe they represents in this letter the view of the suggestion made by Mr. HW Looker, would surely find a place in such a signatories of the petitioners. But it is the head of the leading firm of solicitors Petition as this. No such examples are obvious tha: he can have no authority for in Hongkong, who was no doubt actuated

TO LET: adduced, for the good reason that uo such claiming that in signing the petition by the sound principle that it is wise for Succhese gentlemen committed themselves te man to hear both sides of question examples can be found

FFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3, Queen's Road There is not an Ordinance ou the anything more than their individual and before arriving at a decision. The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Bintute book of the Colony of which it personal opinions; aud. I am quite sure can be said that it was forced through the that they themselves would not clain more by Mr. Pollock at the meeting of the CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

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Council to which he refers in consulting the interests affected in the the learned Coumel that a Director or ʼn paragraplip of his letter, and of my

(622 legislation The history of the legislation | whole Board of Diretors can only speak answer thereto. I do not consider that affecting sanitation and buildings is one for a public company after obtaining the there is any weight in the argument that conspicuous - example among many of approval of a meeting of shareholders an increase in the unofficial element in the scrupulous cave with which weled full in parsuance of a police which has the Executive and Legisistive Councils is NX

TO.4, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, interests and public opinion are constated that such approval would be rsted) necessary for the purpose of dealing with salted, sometimes with a tendency to for. The signatures to the petition trade and shipping problems which may HOUSE, with Offices, Sarvanie Quartert, ats

THE COMMODIOUS DWELLING pronounced to overcome opposition by too not therefore i any way represent the arise in

of the closing of the No. 14, SHAHEEN, CANTON, from la June, generous concessions.

long list of Commercial and Industria Nor can I call to mind any important Companies set out in the letter.

The Mercantile Community has amplent In the occupation of the Imperia

Bussian Conaniats. question during the past 30 years not in 1 On the other hand, it is remarkable that inents through the Hongkong General volving legislation of which it can ho two out of the four European unofficial Chamber of Commerce and otherwise of

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DAVID BASSOON & Co., LTD. said that the Government forced its will members of the Legislative Council have making any suggestions they desire on upon an unwilling people. I feel sare not signed the petition, that the two questions which must obviously be dealt

(415 that two of the most influential bodies in Chinese unofficiul members who represent with by His Majesty's Government on the Colony, the Chinese Community and one of the largest commercial interests in lines of Imperial policy and cannot be the Hongkong General Chamber of Com the Colouy-that of the Chinese wan left to the Legislature of a Crown Colony. merer, would not be slow tu acknowledge||munity--declined the overtures mude 10-I live, etc, that the Government is never remiss in them, as I am assured, on two occasions The Rt. Hon. Andrew Bonar Law, consulting them in all questions affecting with a view to obtaining their and of M.P. etc. trade and commerce and the native Chinese signatures; that the managers of comunity

So the two greater Luropean mercantile

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11. 1 cnclose copy of the questions put

war.

TH. MAY, Governor, oto.

_____-*** (ENCLOSURE 11

Prince's Building, Hongkong, 9th March, 1916.

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*** 4. The principle involved in the prayer interests in the Colony--the Hoogkong. of the petitioners, so far as it relates and Shanghai Banking Corporation. aug to the Legislative Council, has been raised the firm di Messrs. Butterfold & Swire- in this Colony before. It is the natural, have declined to lend even their persona! aspiration of Euglislimen to govern them-support to the petition, that Sir Isa! | - Bit,-1 beg leave to mform H.E. the selves, and it is an aspiration with which Chater, LM.G., unofficial member of the Governor that I have this day posted to the I personally cannot but sympathise Executive Council, and Mr. E. U Sharp Right Honourable the Secretary of State But I venture to think that the K who has been appointed to be in for the Colonies the petition for greater petitioners have scarcely appreciated the unoficial member of that Council sinca unofficial representation on the Councils special nature of local conditions. To the petition was launched, have likewise of this Colony and a copy of the signa indicate some of theso I cannot do better refrained from supporting it; and finally tures therefo, together with a covering thau quote from Lord Ripon's despatch, that the most aportant and influential letter and the inclosures thereto, and I No. 135 of the 23rd of August, 1804, in publia hody in the Colony, the Hongkong now inclose similar documents for the in- answer to a einaiher. petition, in which he General Chamber of Commerce, have not formation of His Excellency, with the

ask fact that it is upon its shoulders that the original signatures to the petition instead nominally that hongkong should be petitioners would lay the responsibility of a copy thercoi given self-government, and an elec, of «lecting in the future two unofficial ✅ In conclusion I would most respectfully | Live system. In my opinion the enters of the Executive and four draw the attention of His Excellency the place and its circumstances are unoffin members of the Legislative Governor to paragraph 10 of the said wholly unsuited for what is pro- Council, fr

covering letter, and I now specially appeal In this letter as in the petition itself to him that, in justics and fairness to posed An Imperial Station with great Im there is a striking absence of any ade the petitioners and their cause, I

may be porial interests, on the borders of quale reason for a violent constitutional furnished with copies of all despatches "a foreign land, the nucleus of wide change. The instancy given of the end of all inciorures thereto which are reaching British interests in the alleged constant employment of the sent by His Excellency the Governor or For Eust, must, it appears to me, official vote to vote down the unofficial by the Hongkong Government to the bo kopt under Imperial protection members are so inept that their citation Light Honourable the Secretary of State and under Imperial control might be adduced as an argument to for the Colonies with reference to or in ** In saying this much I am assuming prove the absenco of any legitimate any way connected with the above

that the self-government would. In grievance.

- potition—I am, etc., worthy of the name, and that the - I attach excerpts from Hansard of all

HE POLLOCK elective system would include all that passed in the Legislative Council The Hou. Colonial Becretary ranks of the community, but this is concerning the vote in Finance Committee

[ENCLOSURE 2.] not what the petition demands, in connection with the Law Courts. The

Hongkong, 9th March, 1918. Those who framed it and signed it Chairman of that Committee was of would, I gathor, desire to place the opinion, and I agree with it, that no To the Rt Hon the secretary of State power in the hands of a select few, useful purpose would be served by further

for the Colonies and to constitute a small oligarchy, discussing the matter in the face of the SIR,-1. In forwarding to you a peti- restricted by the lines of raos. To circumstances described in any previous tion from, the British residents in this any such change I am opposed. I remarks in Council; and it is to be Colony for greater unoficial representa consider that the well-being of the noted that although at the mosting a tion on the Executive and Legislative large majority of the inhabitants is fortaigh, later, when the proceedings of Councils, I would ask leave to make more likely to he safeguarded by the Finance Committee were brought up some cbservations in this covering leter, the Crown Colony system, under for confirmation, I alluded to the vote no by way partly of explanation and partly which, as far as possible no disting question was raised upon it by unofficial of argument. wis is made of parks or race, than members tion of that this petition has beon, signed by

In the first place I would point out by representation which would leave 8. With regard to the question" of the bulk of the population wholly appointing a Commission to enquire into persons, (of whom about one dozen are unrepresented.

the organisation of the Nursing Staff at Portuguese and British Indians, why as ** I can therefore hold out no hope that the Government Civil Hospital, I would hereafter stated in paragraph 6, were not Hongkong will cease to be a Crown invite your perusal of the enclosed ex- intended to sign) whereas the 1801 reti- Colony

tracts from Hansard which give an ac- tion for greater representation, which is ted from the despatch of the late Mrcurate account of the discussion in the hereafter referred to, though open for Joseph Chamberlain, No. 119 of the 29th Legislative Council on this subject signature by persons of every nation of May, I 1806, in which he stated — In intimating to the Council that I was was signed by 363 only, of whom 284 WING In his despatch of the 23rd of August, unable to accept the motion of Mr. British, 10 Anglo Chinese 3. Ameri ins, 1804, Lord Hipon stated that he Pollock for the appointment of a Com-4 Portuguese, and 47 Tiritish Indians. could hold out no hope that Hong mission, I explained that I had asked kong will cease to be a Crown your permission to increase the Nursing

LOS up, the petition Bigned the petition notwithstanding he exception that I am sending herewith the Water und Water Carriage Bystem. A fow

(Continued on page 6.)

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