I note, by a special telegram to the Daily Press in this morning's issue, that the London branch of the Straits Settlements Association is eaid to have telegraphed out denying that the Home Goveroment has sanctioned the re-enactment of the above named Ordinance in Hongkong. Yet Reuters statement was circumstantial enough. Possibly the Secretary of State for the Colonies said It was proposed to sanction, the re enactment of the law on this subject, but the Government found subsequently' they were not strong enough to carry it through. T hope, however, Reuter will prove to have been correct, and that Her Majesty's Goverament will refuse to be bullied by the shrieking sisterhood and their fanatical slaves of Exeter Hall.
Hongkong, 2nd July.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.