Hongkong must have surprised oven itself by the awakening which has taken place in the past few weeks. At last the unofficial members of the Legislative Couneil—"unofficial" has become almost a word to joke with of Into years—have had the audacity to come into 44, the open and ask, even demand, a fairer or more adequate share the conduct of the Colony's affairs. The demands categorically put forward by the instigator of the awakening, the Hon. Mr. E. H. Pollock, K.c., are so simple and to the point that diplomatic jueglery should find no scope. There are no two opinions, in commercial circles, as to the fairness of the requests put forward by the unofficial member referred to: and the fact that the Hon. Mr. Pollock should also have emerged in the role of a real fighter for principles held is by no means one of the mild surprises with which the Colony has been regaled. The mantle of the late Mr. Hewett has been taken up gallantly.
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