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to Foreign Countries. That is carried on sometimes in British vessels.
The total Chinese Emigration to all parts during the last 13 years (1855 to 1867 inclusive) has been 18,071. During the same period the number of Chinese Emigrants paying their passages and reported at the Emigration office, has been 129,692. The great bulk of them proceeded to Australia - 62,147, San Francisco - 62,000, Vancouver Island - 3,667, Singapore - 1,757, Moulmein - 66, Bankok - 50.
B. West Indies.
1856 67858 34991 1859 7862 36630 Bombay (1862) 2370 Dutch Guiana, 1865 61867 1609 Honolulu (1865) 780 Labuar (1866) 164> Samarang 5,436 Total 18,071Total - 129,692
3 – It is however only to the service-contract migration that the correspondence above alluded to relates.
4. Mr. Robertson, our Consul at Canton, in drawing attention to the alleged abuses in the Cooly Emigration from Hongkong stated that it bids fair to rival that from Macao, - that notwithstanding the precautions taken by the Colonial Government to prevent the emigration of kidnapped and deceived persons; and that Hongkong from its insular position is totally unsuited for Emigration purposes. – He referred, in support of his views, to certain leading ...