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of the Periodical Press
his views of the
of the Colony at that period.
The Hongkong Register
3.
was
owned
and edited
by Mr John Cairns. That gentleman quitted the Colony some time since, and the
Press has become the property of Mr Robert Stracker. This paper is stated by Sir John Davis to have been printed almost exclusively for the
one
purposes of
of our principal houses of agency; but this I
now
do not believe to be the case. It seems to be conducted with fairness and honesty of purpose,
and is
I understand, taken in and read by the
same description of persons
as support the "China Mail", but it has not so extensive
circulation in England
as the latter paper
4.
The "Friend of China",
heretofore owned and edited by Mr John Carne, has recently
been transferred to Mr Williams Tarrant, a person formerly in Government Services, and who, it will be within Your Lordship's recollection, has recently sent home a
Petition to the Queen complaining of his having been dismissed from public employment. During
the time this Paper was under the management
of Mr Carne, it was generally
very
abusive in its observations
towards the
Officers of the