that in a
but they submit, that in praiseworthy desire to abolish
the earls of that traffic & to requlate it in the future, Hen Majesty's Goverment have been led into sauctioning vexations restrictions on ordi- Mary Chinese passengers, tra-
• Welling between the various porto in China & the Easteni & Australian Colonies-
3. The passengers to litiome I refer, are hot Cooties but for the most part. Shopkeepers & Artisaus & have the licht common to their Comitrynien, of Eating their passage very often at the last moment- I coming
on board almost-
As a
vessel is starting. They presen having the selection
of their own diet. I are usually Adepts in the Art of its prepa-
It is found, that to
-ration
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hand.
the
subject such a class of lers to the restrictive détails of an Emigration Act., is repel.: lout to themselves d causes such delay & inconvenience to steam vessels carrying them, as to become to a curtain Exteul., a perhibition on Conveyance of Chinese passen. Jess by mail Steamers. Hence, such vessels practically a penally, for being more -peditions & reliable than hers I the native passengers have to be content with less favo. rable opportunities for havelling.
incur
4. Though the primary bject of this Company is the Conveyance of the Queensland Mail & passengers between Singapore & Brisbane, they have sought by an extension of their line to Hong Kong on the one side & to Melbourne on the other, to provide