of 140,000 Chinese and 2,000 Europeans,
the total number that had been in Bush
the last day of the week was
499.
If there were
14
Europeans; that is
nearly one fourth of the total.
Ordinance in April, but he could not get
a seconder
6.
his motion.
Thus in the same year 1872,
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statements directly contradictory of each other too immediately preceding
were made
by my
need not talk of Chinese immorality
after that.
5.
In the same occasion Sir Arthur
remarked in reply to the retiring Chief Justice
of the
Supreme Court saying "As to the maintenance
of
law and order he would appeal to the
Chief Justice whether the records of
the
Supreme Court were not satisfactory" to which the Acting Chief Justice Mr. Ball
replied "Certainly!" It is due to Mr. Ball, the Acting Chief Justice, to note the fact that he moved the rejection of the Branding
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respecting crime in Hong Kong
what I have said in
59, 60 and 64
of
Despatches from May last, I need
hardly say that Sir Arthur Kennedy's statements
were the correct ones, and that I entirely share the views he expressed that the Chinese
population of Hong Kong
was in 1872 and is
at this hour as orderly and law-abiding
as that of any of Her Majesty's dominions.
I refer to these facts
now not only
because Your Lordship has under consideration
the Branding Ordinance hall
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