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the notice is posted which is directly opposed to the
specific terms of the notice, and the consequence has been that whole families with their goods and chattels have been left to spend the night as best they could with no roof to their head but the not too friendly sky. In George Lane several such cases occurred and one whole family including women and children had to bivouac in the miserable thoroughfare all night. At Astor Buildings the tenants received the same rough and utterly illegal treatment. It is very unfortunate
that the supervision of this important matter has to be left to a staff which though on the whole fairly re- liable, contains some members who have no respect for
the miserable people they are dealing with, and nei-
ther tact, discretion or common kindness. To prevent
abuses a very careful suveillance ought to be kept
by the Chief Officials".
On Saturday the 9th June news reached this
Consulate from several sources that the resentment for
supposed wrongs in Hong Kong was being industriously turned against Foreign Missionaries. A lying rumour was set going by malicious persons and generally be- lieved by the common people that foreign lady Mis-
sionaries and Chinese convert women were distributing
in the streets of Canton bags of scent which killed
all who smelt them. The following is a specimen "Lately Christian converts have been making scent bags of stupifying drugs which they have employed men
and