6
ay
5.
Under these circumstances,
and in view of reports
more
or less well founded, that
the houses in some
of
the
principal European Streets
shortly about to be
were
pulled down to make wa
way
for Chinese houses, the effect of which would be to drive a considerable
number of the poorer. Europeans either out the Town altogether
of
while at the same time
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of
causing general rise European rents already exceedingly high, I came to
the conclusion that the time
had arrived for adopting
dure means
the only sure
of
giving effect to the principle of Lord Carnarvon's instructions, by passing
an Ordinance
such as that now-submitted
for Your Lordship's consideration.
or to
6.
its most distant outskirts
By this Ordinance
the creation of houses
of houses of the
while.
Type