Papers received by yesterday's mail contain various references to the Kowloon extension, including Lord Salisbury's statement in the House of Lords.
Sir William Robinson, our late Governor, expressed the following view to a reprosentative of Reuter's Agency:—' The Kowloon arrangement," he said, "is an admirable one, and will be of great benefit to the Chinese as well as the European inhabitants of Hongkong. Now we' can look for lines of railway to Canton, up to the Yangtze Valley, to Peking, and so on, In fact, as I said, Kowloon might be made the Clapham' Junction of the East. We must, however, have European management. Kowloon City, which has hitherto been' a nest of gamblers and robbers, will now be cleansed and properly policed, to the great advantage of Victoria." it Willian, had apparently not heard of the unfortunate reservation regarding the continuance of Chinese jurisdiction over Kowloon, In another paragraph, however, we find it stated that "the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League, has cabled an urgent request that we should press upon the country the necessity for abolishing all Chinese jurisdiction within the territory leased. it is at present proposed that China shall retain her jurisdiction within the native city of Kowloon. Will not this mean an Alsatian within our boundaries, says the parent league, dangerous to the health and discipline of troops and crews, and an endless source of trouble to the responsible authorities?"—Hongkong Daily Press, 18th July.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.