How it takes place during the few weeks, and the seditious and treasonable demonstrations of this date in the streets of this city, have been occasioned by the direct agency of secret emissaries from the persons carrying on a lawless warfare against Her Majesty's Forces in the neighboring province of Kwangtung, – it is the determination of Her Majesty's Government within this Colony to take instant measures for putting in force the provisions of the Registration Ordinance of 1846. And so soon as the said Ordinance shall be brought into full operation all unregistered Chinese will be required to depart from the Colony.
Whilst the Colonial Government are always ready on proper occasions to hear the complaints of Her Majesty's Chinese Subjects, and, if well-founded, to redress them; it is nevertheless further notified that no complaints whatever will be attended to, so long as they are urged in an improper manner. The Lieutenant Governor will willingly receive and give every ...