THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH JULY, 1881.
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They are people who would in no way be proceeding to either place under contract or in con- nection with any system of immigration, but in all respects Free Passengers.
3. We would therefore submit for the consideration of His Excellency, that travelling facilities: such as could be offered by the Perusia for this class of Chinese, might be afforded them, subject to such Regulations and conditions as His Excellency may consider it necessary to enforce.
We have, &c.,
(Signed)
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
The Honourable CHARLES MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary-
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THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY TO MESSRS. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 30th January, 1879.
GENTLEMEN,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th instant on the subject of the conveyance of Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to Honolulu and Peru in the Belgic steamer Perusia.
2. You state that the conveyance of these Chinese to Honolulu and Peru would not be in con- nection with any system of immigration, and you ask that the travelling facilities offered by the Perusia may be permitted, subject to such Regulations and conditions as His Excellency the Governor may consider it necessary to enforce.
3. In reply, I am to inform you that His Excellency will be prepared to consider in Council the details of any application you may think proper to make, subject to the provisions of the Imperial Act relating to Chinese Passengers, and to the Ordinances of this Colony.
4. I need hardly remind you that His Excellency has already explained in the Legislative Council that he cannot sanction any Chinese emigration whatever to Peru, nor any Chinese emigration involving contracts of service to the Sandwich Islands.
Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
I have, &c.,
(Signed)
C. MAY, Acting Colonial Secretary
Hongkong.. Emigration.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY TO GOVERNOR
SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.
DOWNING STREET, HONGKONG, 9th June, 1881.
SIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, marked "Emigration," of the 12th of April last, transmitting a copy of a letter addressed by the Chairman of the Hongkong Cham- ber of Commerce to the Acting Colonial Secretary under your Government, containing a resolution of that Body memorializing you to withdraw the restrictions on Chinese emigration from Hongkong to Honolulu, with your reply, and copies of correspondence which you have caused to be published in relation to this subject.
With reference to the concluding paragraph of your despatch, I have to remind you that the question of contract emigration to foreign countries from Hongkong, or in British vessels from Chinese ports, has been fully considered, and that my predecessors have declined, for reasons in which I concur, to sanction such emigration. Under these circumstances, I am not prepared to relax this rule in favour of Honolulu.
Governor SIR J. POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.