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were app.
apparently
Dome Sixty
Passengers
on board the ferry boat, some Chinese Soldiers.
and
In the 10th ult, a Chinese subject -
named Dr. Wo. A. Fur Jung, by profession,
who had been residing for many years past at To Kwa Wan,
came to Hong Kong to make some purchases
and at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon
he started on his return journey amongst them.
Before the boat left Victoria, the master received orders from an individual whom he took to be an official to proceed direct to Kau Lung without stopping at Hung Hom.
Steam ferry boat which plies between Kau Lung, Victoria, Shaukiwan, and Kau Lung.
The excuse given by the individual for requiring the master to proceed direct to Kau Lung was that he and those with him had business within British waters at the place where he would go on shore.
On the day in question, there was business of importance to transact with the chief Mandarin.
There was that they did not wish