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the Government here, it is with pain and reluctance I allow the Magistrates to enforce such cases under the law of deportation. For reasons which, I am sure, Your Lordship will not misapprehend, I feel compelled to content myself with reporting the facts (as in the case of excessive use of the lash) and awaiting the instructions of Her Majesty's Government.
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I am bound, however, to bring to Your Lordship's notice what was recently pointed out to me by the Archdeacon of Hongkong. On the 23rd of June 1870, having come from Canton for two days, and having occasion to see Sir Brooke Robertson, I was taken by Archdeacon Gray through the Government Home for aged females, situated near the East Gate of the City. At the time of our visit, it contained about one thousand inmates. It is a very spacious establishment. Each old woman occupies a separate little cottage where she receives her daily allowance from the State under the supervision of the district magistrates. Those who were still able to do so were occupied with shoe-making.