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provincers, China and it will
so
always be so unless some exceptional legislation is sanctioned for its exceptional character.
Lord Carnarvon in a despatch of 5 January 1878 referred to the "doubtful expediency of attracting
6, criminals from the Province by a system of comparative leniency
stat[ed] also that Colonies under your government have
seen regarded as a place per se
differ[ent].
The deal will
on principles which ought not be sanctioned elsewhere". I
submit that there is abundant
for continuing to regard it
But higher
and Rat
Alterations made in the laws some
few years back though they may have been dictated in humane feelings have been
a mistake and should be
reconsidered. It must be
remembered that nearly the
whole population by this island are Chinese and that a large number of these are migratory
hardly be said to be
and can
residents. Live on
All
circumstances can vary
To some class tent
years ago : to one's appreciable difference,
in my opinion,
being
an increased contempt
for