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of Mor Grimes Leving branded.
any
"Steamer bound for the Colonies.
8.
J'Enclose copies of the records
of Chinese deported or conditionally pardoned between 23rd November 1873 and 13 June 1877. The column of places to which they were deported has been filled up by Lindsay from the Occurrence Books. There are 270 men, 263 of whom were deported. To the Mainland of China, Macao, there are 10 and 30 respectively; but there is no record of the distinctions of the remaining 7.
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of State wrote to the Secretary of State as follows.
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EXTRACTS FROM DESPATCHES OF GOVERNOR SIR J. POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, BT., M.P.
GOVERNMENT House, HONGKONG, 29th April, 1879.
SIR,
In considering the policy of getting rid of old offenders by deporting them to other parts of the world, I have been unable to approve of a system which existed in Hongkong before my arrival. I refer to that which is described by the Police Officers in their evidence at the recent Commission. "At page 37 of the evidence, the Captain Superintendent of Police mentions the fact that some of the deported men go to Australia: and at page 77, Mr. GRIMES, the Inspector who had charge of the harbour, said he saw as many as fifty deported men, some being old offenders, shipped off in Emigrant Ships in 1876 to Queensland.
"I have, &c.,
J. POPE HENNESSY."
10. Unfortunately the circumstantial, but untrustworthy, statement of Mr. Grimes, was considered by Excellency as corroborated by my evidence.
But my evidence was prior to that of Mr. Grimes, and pages are wound back to Oct: 1078 quidence.
23. Lavring been paid to six days Australian by the Government, and had been paid they must have appeared in the accounts.
9. On the 29 August 1879, Excellency the Governor and the Committee did not recall the Eller statement, which was made in camera.
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11. On the 22nd October 1879, Grote wrote a despatch.