"before the commencement of the Criminal Seesions, the Attorney-General moved the of Mr. Wei On to practise as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of Hongkong. Mr. Wei On's papers were in order, and he might mention that he had been educated at Oxford of which University he was an M.A. His Lordship, in making the order, said he had much pleasure in doing so, more especially as he belonged to the same University as he (Sir John Carrington) did. Mr. Wei On twas, he believed, the first Chinese graduate of Oxford. The newly-admitted solicitor is a brother of the Hon. Wei Yuk, compradore to the Mercantile Bank of India. T may add that, like the Hon. Ho Kai, 'Mr. Wei On wears Western clothes. I hear Mr. Wei On joins the' office of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes, and Master.
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