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from here. Falso leant from detection
Jources
that some deported men
had
been seen in the gold fields in Australia,
for instance (a) te & Gour,
Gor, Police Magistrates Case 2029 deported to Canton on the 25th September 1872. (b) Sec. Too Yu conditionally pardoned, who went to Macao on 26th June 1873. I.I.D. 1259; and (c) Low to a Fook, conditionally pardoned on 30th May 1871. I.I.D. 117.
4. It was my intention to convey by the above quoted answer that some portion of the deportees or criminals who received conditional pardons were sent to Australia as His Excellency the Governor informed the Legislative Council "sent" to Australia.
I know of no case where any of the above men were directly or indirectly paid for by the Government or Jail authorities.
5. On page 77 of the same report Mr Grimes gives evidence.
<Hon. F. C. Hayllar...> "As to what becomes of the men who are deported, have you watched them?
Trop: Grimes... "Well they are sent across, and they can come back in the next ship if they like.
<Hon. J. C. Hayllar.> "As a fact do they?"
"Of course they do.
<Trop. Grimes.> "And are they not discovered?
"Some of them are discovered, they come back again, there men apprehended and deported, (six in original) as far as I know?
The Chairman... "Can you form an idea of what proportion don't come back, how many out of a hundred?
Trop: Grimes "Well, there are a good many of them who got passages to Australia when the Emigration was going on. I don't wonder the Australians put a capitation tax on."
"Well, what proportion?
<Her J. C. Hayllar>
The Chairman. Evidence follows... 17th Dec.
"...never caught again.
Inspector Grimes. "Well there might be one"
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