LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 32.
TUESDAY, 21ST JUNE, 1887.
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·PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM GORDON CAMERON, C.B., ·
Administering the Government.
His Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL), vice His Honour SIR GEORGE
PHILLIPPO, Knt., on leave.
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART.)
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the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD), vice the Honour-
able EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY, on leave.
the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).
the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.) HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.
PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG SHING.
JOHN BELL-IRVING, (vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave). ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (vice the Honourable THOMAS Jackson,
on leave).
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, (vice the Honourable FREDERICK DAVID SAS-
SOON, on leave).
The Council met pursuant to notice.
The Officer Administering the Government addressed the Council, and moved that the following telegram be despatched to Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, through Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies: --
We, the Governor and Legislature of the Colony of Hongkong in Council assembled, desire on this auspicious day to assure Your Majesty from this distant outpost of Your Empire on behalf of this Council and all Your Majesty's loving subjects here of our most loyal and devoted attachment .to Your Majesty's throne and person, and of our fervid hope that Your Majesty's glorious reign may long continue both prosperous and peaceful. Thanksgiving services to-day at various places of worship. Governor and Members of Legislative Council attend officially at the Cathedral. Influential committee of inhabitants have decided to commemorate Jubilee by erecting statue of Her Majesty, and are collecting funds for that purpose and for fête and general rejoicings in November.
Mr. RYRIE seconded, and addressed the Council,
Question-put and passed.
The Council then adjourned to S. John's Cathedral, to attend Divine Service.
Read and confirmed, this 8th day of July, 1887.
J. M. GUTIERREZ, Acting Clerk of Councils.
W. G. CAMERON, Major-General, Administering the Government.
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