Colonel Ward asked for an early statement on the subject of 1e-presentation of the British community on the Legislative Council of Hongkong, with a view to the pressing necessity of representation of the British attitude on the question of slavery and the employment of young children.
Mr. Churchill replied that it had been decided to make no change in the numbers or the mode of selection of the Legislative Council, whose present European members were fully able to represent British attitude on all social questions. Reuter.
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