The remarks of Mr Keswick at the Inst meeting of the Legislative Council are yell worth attentive consideration. Summarised they amount to this: that in throwing these heavy charges on the Colony we should be thoroughly assured its present and future revenues will not be unduly burdened; that any surplus revenue may be devoted to the relief of taxation works proposed, although desirable ones, are not urgently needed; and that in dealing with crime we should endeavour to prevent Hongkong from becoming a prison house for China, exerting ourselves to keep the criminally inclined beyond our borders by deportation and "severity of punishnient, rather than attempting to Suppress crime here. by reformation and
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