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letter in your Columns the means of publicly stating that the Chinese population of Hong Kong is not deminis
and that
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want
hing Confidence has been expressed to
as the Corumittee is aware
the community
by any portion of in the present
native or
foreign
Government.
am directed by the Committer to date that the financial crises through which the Colony has recently passed has affected only
Q
Lection
the Chinese Community and
a reckless
I has been solely due to the severe
disasters arising from speenlation during 1881 which most
and buildings
in the collapse Banks
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were involved
the Native
The meeting of Chinese
merchants to wheel your article
referred
by
hao
called to consider
den ec
what means confider the native Banks could be restored. It
was
by those interested
cine
attended chiefly
in ther
in land areated in apcculation
in
the resolutions
which were proposed
Or
discussion which followed them,
not a
word
was
given timating policy
expression
to reflecting upon in intimating
want
fidence in the
of the present Government.
further to inform
G
this letter
coby thas been early through the
Colonial Government to the
Forday of State for
Your
(Signed)
I
Ал,
the
most obedient Dewant,
E. George
Seeulay.