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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1880.

none between the living and the dead.

the ran that does not admire such

pectfully to express a hope the Governor will continue

policy both by embodying it in of the Government and by ex ternal affairs of the people, as

dest and lowest classes will be good relations and both the rld will daily learn to understand The future will then show.

sime, that public morality and.

also be brought thereby into

with the highest principles.

scelleney, taking pleasure in the talent and in the promotion of as regards English and Chinese tion. requested that an alteration of the City Hall Museum be made, ute broader views, and laid that no distinction should be

tives of the West or natives of subjects which cannot be fully

af words. His Excellency's uimi

to everything that may

it for the Chinese people.

ver, yet one prayer to address

The trade of the Colony has

be

dily increasing in prosperity merchants are flocking But in the ab- garters.

reeting-place, operations on a they difficult to develop. We

nxious to petition for the grant

n land, to enable us to erect a

Hinese Chamber of Commerce,

cuplete exhibition of all English of commerce might be placed xamination and verification. are both Chinese and English 14 derive equal benefit. But it quisite at the outset to provide a even a sum of forty thousand or dollars would not suffice. If it to hope for a grant from Her Ma-

tin aid of the expenses to be Wild really be no limit to the by His Excellency. What we bat mutual good understanding hose and the English people, and aku within and without the ir du will result, on the one hund,

the representatives of the Gov-

the odber tranquility and peace 4them ives. Whatever pleasure residents of this Colony enjoy Wellency the Governor, to Last respectfully presented.

your 1880, the 19th day of Punty. In the 6th your of

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