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330
Supreme Court
Frust,
if
the
for
: breach of - money applied
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to other purposes than those for which it was subscribed. "The Provinsial Treasurer finding
that his commande addressed
to the Directors of a Public
Institution in HongKong
obeyed,
are not
employs
threats
which, as most of the Committee
have some Members
of
their
families residing in China
and are possessed of property
there, naturally
cause mo
little
alarm
alarm. I have represented the case to Her Majesty's Chargé
d'Affaires at Peking,
ta
Consider that the British
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Government is bound to protect
the Chinese who have been
attracted to settle here by the feeling of security that has hitherto prevailed, which feeling it is most important to maintain in the interests of the prosperity of the Colony. As
I have stated to Mr Conor.
the better class of Chinese are
watching
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