Whitehead represented the bank to the United States Government on the issue of maintaining the stability of Mexican dollars.
Whitehead held criticism to the incompetence of the Tung Wah Hospital during the Plague of 1894 in the Legislative Council.
Whitehead also suggested a recreation ground to be built in Causeway Bay in the 60th year of the reign of Queen Victoria.
[2] Whitehead involved in the negotiations with the Chinese authorities in Peking and Canton over the Cassel loan of 1895 whereby Britain loaned the Chinese government a million pounds to help them pay the indemnity they owed to Japan after losing the First Sino-Japanese War.
[2] Whitehead was also a correspondent for The Times in Hong Kong and came into prominence in 1895 when he disclosed the secret treaty between China and Russia regarding the occupation of Port Arthur.