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The villagers of "Wengnisichoong" have requested that a school similar to that at Victoria may be opened in their neighbourhood, as there is a growing number of children there. The parents are too poor to make it worth a schoolmaster's while to take up his residence among them. The village is in a very impoverished condition owing to the land by the cultivation of which the inhabitants subsisted having been converted into a race-course; the money paid as compensation for this loss having been long ago expended. We beg to recommend their petition to the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Governor, that the small monthly sum, ten dollars, required for the establishment of the school, may, if expedient, be granted.
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We are, &c.,
(signed) C. B. Hillier, Colonial Secretary.
V. J. Stanton
Committee for superintending Chinese schools.
Victoria, Hongkong, Chinese Secretary's Office, 14th March, 1850.
Memorandum of the number and Cargoes of Chinese Junks which have visited the Port of Victoria during the year 1849.
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The particulars of the following are taken in part from Notes drawn up monthly by Mr Gutzlaff, Chinese Secretary, from the 18th January to the 31st August last. "The matter of these was collected by a Chinese messenger of this office, a native of an Eastern District of the Kwangtung Province, and consequently the fittest person to obtain the information required from the Junkmen, most of whom, it will be seen, are from the neighbourhood of Lame himself. He has been in the habit of