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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 19.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH MAY, 1878.
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
The following copies or extracts of Despatches are published for general information.
By Command,
VOL. XXIV.
J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th May, 1878..
[No. 69.]
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 9th April, 1877.
MY LORD,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's Despatch, No. 12, of the 5th January, 1877, in which you transmit for consideration a copy of a letter with enclosures. from the Foreign Office respecting a scheme for the importation into Peru of Chinese Coolies.
Report: I fully endorse, om Hongkong.
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I lost no time in forwarding the papers for the consideration of the Emigration Officer, and I have now the honour to
se a copy of his Report. His views, as expressed in t` and I trust that ation such as that now proposed will not be sar Individually I am o Ito any Emigration from China which the British through all stages from
I have noted your I taken in the matter.
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s instructions to keep you fully informed of any steps that may be
I have, &c.,
(Signed,)
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Administrator.
The Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,
&e.,
&c.,
&c.
Hongkong. [No. 81.]
DOWNING STREET, 5th July, 1877..
SIR,-With reference to Mr. AUSTIN'S Despatch No. 69 of the 9th of April, I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a letter relative to the projected arrangement between the Peruvian Government and the Firm of OLYPHANT & Co. for the importation of Chinese Coolies to Peru.
On a former occasion your predecessor was instructed not to permit contract emigration from Hongkong except to British Territories, and he was at the same time informed that Her Majesty's Government reserved to themselves the right of prohibiting so called free emigration from that Colony to Foreign Countries where there was reason to believe that Chinese Immigrants had not been well treated.
I request, therefore, that you will watch very carefully any attempt to make Hongkong a base of operations under the projected contract, if it reaches maturity, as well as any application for a licence for
any vessel which may be laid on for the
It is clear to me that the course which the Peruvian Government propose to adopt is one open,
purpose of carrying out such contract. if indeed it is not absolutely certain to lead, to the gravest abuses, and that with past experience it is desirable to discourage and suppress any attempt on their part to revive the Coolie Traffic, which it is clearly their object to set again on foot.
Governor HENNESSY, C.M.G.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
I have, &c.,
(Signed,)
CARNARVON.