THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30тH JULY, 1881.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 265.
CONTRACT EMIGRATION.
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The following despatches regarding Contract Emigration are published for general information. By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th July, 1881.
Emigration.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary,
GOVERNOR SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G., TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 12th April, 1881.
MY LORD,-I enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of a letter of the 9th instant from Mr. WILLIAM KESWICK, transmitting to the Acting Colonial Secretary a resolution of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce requesting me to license Chinese emigration from Hongkong to Honolulu.
2. In reply, Mr. KESWICK has been informed, as Your Lordship will observe from the enclosed letter of 12th April, 1881, that I adhere to the decision conveyed in the Colonial Secretary's letter to Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. on the 30th of January, 1879, namely, that I cannot sanction any Chinese emigration involving contracts of service to the Sandwich Islands,
3. I take this opportunity of transmitting to Your Lordship some spare copies of correspondence respecting emigration to Honolulu that I caused to be published for general information in December last.
4. I would venture to submit for Your Lordship's consideration whether the rule laid down by the EARL OF CARNARVON respecting contract emigration might not be relaxed respecting the passage tickets to Honolulu, as the Chinese are undoubtedly so well treated by the Hawaiian Government.
I have, &c.,
The Right Honourable
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
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J. POPE HENNESSY, Governor.
(Enclosures referred to in the Foregoing Despatch.)
CHAIRMAN OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
HONGKONG, 9th April, 1881.
SIR, I have the honour to inform you that at the Annual General Meeting of the Chamber held on the 10th ultimo, the following resolution was proposed and carried unanimously:"That this "Chamber memorialize the Governor to withdraw the restrictions on emigration from Hongkong to “Honolulu," and I am desired by the Committee to request you to bring the resolution to the notice of His Excellency the Governor for his favourable consideration.
The Chamber desire to point out to His Excellency that, so far as information on the subject is possessed by its members, the treatment of Chinese in the Hawaiian Islands is in every respect con. siderate and entirely free from the objectionable features that brought emigration to other countries into just disfavour, and that Chinese in Honolulu acquire wealth and influence and have protection as fully accorded them as the other inhabitants of the country.