being far
cat, migratory, and
more commercial
maritime in their hobets than any
other natives
of China. Their spoken language is altogether unintelligible to the people of Canton, between whour and themselves a sucies of irreconcileable fend has existed from time immemorial. Hence
they
cannet inhabit the same n
neighbourhood without quarrels and occasionally bloody + conflicts .
lease of ea.
The rule invariably followed in
the disposal of lands has been, in pursuance of your Lordship's instructions, to put the
seach lot up to public auction. When the Fokion, for us they are commonly styled -applied for a grant of
here Kinchew)
land, it was clear that in a con
competition
with the Canton men
they
would either be
of the
I
excluded altogether, to the great debriment
- commercial prospects of this Colony, or mingled with the Canton, me
en to the
to the prejudice.
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of general peace and order. It appeared so important to secure the settlement of this
valuable class of people poho in the present
instance
dre
persons of substance) that the
Conneil unanimously
4
concurred with me as
to the expediency of granting them a special location at the average price of similar lots of land. The Canton people having settled at the "Western extremity of Victoria, deemed advisable to
to fix the Folien the opposite extremity on the East. They
have
it
men
was
at
e cocordingly been placed much to their satisfaction in the
tion in the neighbourhood of East point, and have commenced building on five contiguous lots of land, measuring together
annual
450 by 50 feet, of which the aggregate rental will be £47. 19.4. The sale is therefore sufficiently, advantageous even in a pecuniary point of view
In connection with this subject I
am