to them, on account of short procees, on the eale of the said
4 of the said consignments
of matting,
in the sum
да
of about
$2920, that the firm of Jekwo
had been dissolved; that the
them, chun thun residing
partners had retired into the,
4 province
of Shuang-hing,
and that one
one of
at the
village of Hao kong
was supposed
Hong Kong the sun
of about of 10,000.
to have taken with him from
This action was handed over in
the usual way to the Chinese Authorkies for investigation and. decision. As the latter, after a long and protracted correspondence finally replied, that the deblors, who_~?
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belonged to different districts, could
not be
and as there were
· found, and
indications, that Chun thun was at the time at the village
living
of Rackong and had bribed the runners and officials
officials in search of
him, the Imperial German ___ Consulate at Canton referred the case to the Imperial German Legation at Peking. In consequence of this step the Jungli Yamen issued the strictest orders to the provincial Authorities, to have the case in issue, investigated and decided.
In the month of February 1875 the bistrict Magistrate of Ham-hoi- [ banton] informed me that Chan