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said Chinese Emigrants
Their lives
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were
Emigrants were sent
despaired of.
sent when
Your Lordship will probably be in receipt about this time of my despatch No 726 (2th June last) which gives very fully the subject, and on Chinese to join in building a permanent Native Hospital adequate to meet the necessities of the very large Chinese population of the colony, and that had also promised them a suitable site for the purpose.
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as well as full explanations also details the action taken by the Executive here. That narrative will no doubt have induced Your Lordship to anticipate the eventual realization of much permanent good from the discovery of the abuses which had prevailed in the Tze or Native Hospital.
Native Hospital, or rather place of reception for Sick and Patients. 3. In that despatch I informed Your Lordship that I had availed myself of those disclosures to induce the Chinese to make a contribution not exceeding in outlay on the site and in money the sum of $15,000.
I have much pleasure now in reporting that the Subscription list circulated amongst the Chinese merchants amounts to upwards of $30,000, and though in the present very distressed state of Trade it is unlikely that such will be actually realized there is no doubt that $15,000 will be forthcoming.
on the lodgement of which the Government