1.   Its leaders were local magnates who co-operated with each other by exchanging and transporting stolen cattle.

2.   The local magnates exercised a limited but real authority entirely independent of the colonial administration.

3.   As a group they are eclipsed not only by the connections of local magnates, but by the affinity which developed around the queen and her brother earl Rivers.

4.   Ask Cheng about Tung Chee Hwathe local shipping magnate whom Beijing appointed to replace British Governor Chris Patten, and a tirade ensues.