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No. 2 Report.
ANOTHER PHASE OF THE COOLIE TRADE.
A Coroner's inquest upon the body of an emigrant named Tsi A-кwa, who died in the Civil Hospital after having been picked up in the street, was continued before the Coroner and the Jury on the 22nd.
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The Coroner remarked that he would be glad if Mr. CALDWELL would come up to-morrow and give his evidence. He would have to adjourn until 4 o'clock to-morrow.
SIR,
Friday, April 23rd.
LUN A-CHING, the sick coolie, was again put into the box.
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The inquest then concluded.
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DOWNING STREET,
28th July, 1869.
I am directed by Earl GRANVILLE to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, with reports of two inquests held at Hongkong in April and May last by the Government Coroner into the causes and circumstances attending the death of two Chinese coolies in the Civil Hospital of the Colony.
I am to acquaint you in reply that Lord GRANVILLE's attention had already been called to the subject and that he had addressed a despatch to the Governor of Hongkong with reference to it.
I am, &c.,
F. R. SANDFORD. ·
EDWIN PEARS, Esq.,
Secretary to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science.
No. 792.
MY LORD,
(Despatch from the Governor to the Secretary of State.)
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 14th September, 1869.
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Lordship's despatch No. 112 of the 30th July last, requesting from me information on four points connected with the discovery here near the "I-Ts'z" Temple of an Hospital where noribund patients were frequently sent by the Chinese.
2. Your Lordship's first three inquiries refer to the existence of such a place having been so long undiscovered, and to the possibility of there being any other similar places, and also as to what has been done or is doing to remove the evils brought to light, &c. All these topics have been so fully reported on in my communication No. 726 of the (See pages 21st June last, and again in my despatch No. 775 of the 18th August last, that it xxxu. would be difficult to obtain additional particulars to illustrate them with.
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