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Reference to the previous correspondence, and to the Report of the Royal...
Summary of the Case in yours under... really shews that the man... daughter was when Lai-li-heen's very young contracted in marriage by her grandmother to the son of a man named H. "Kai-Chay, and that, as the girl grew up, she exhibited the greatest repugnance to the engagement, preferring not to marry at all to being united to the intended bridegroom.
It has been... many times... referred to be a leper, and was since denied that he is a leper, but the girl appears still to believe it, and whether he be or not, her aversion to the man is apparently insuperable and was declared by her to be so in an interview with His Excellency the Governor on the 16th July.
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At that interview the father (Lai-li-heen) stated that his daughter had been born in Hong Kong, a fact which he was prepared to prove by numerous witnesses. He also affirmed that with the exception of intervals, not exceeding in the whole three years, she had been brought up and educated in Hong Kong, a statement which...