2.
3.
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was in itself
as it was
the United Foingdom, great cession; & so applicable to all traders alike, it pressed
equally upon all.
Tal
-
long
4. The Sunday - cargo working 25 ordinance of Hong toong
has
now been
years in existence. It has greatly diminished compulsory Sunday work in that harbour,
to Officers,
& been
great
boon not
only
Engineers, & sailors afloat, but to shipping people ashore ; & is much valued by
all classes,
as
:curing to them
some had
Day of spest, though some
objected to such
Whilst it has
EN
weekly
had previously
an ordinance being passed. made it possible for divine
on board ship whilst in Nevertheless the ordinance
worship to be held that harbour.
needs strengthening by including-coating in
the
samme
Bategory
53
It was
as cargo work.
very
officers, Engineers, firemen & sailors
shipping people ashore should, in a brown Colony,
be deprived rest which was
in
that of secured to them
be deprived of this right, not by ordinary
traders nor
by foreigners,
but
by
Her
ajesty's abail steamers.
There clbail vessels can be
· as the
there
movements of
ordinarily timed
as not to arrive at
Đang trong
on
Ov
Sunday, just
at once altered,
of
Australia
26.el6's albail steamers
Ou
when the self Governed bolonies determined that their freople should no longer be deprived of their right to weinly day of the British tonnage entering
rest.
6.
clearing at Hong Kong is so
Hong Kong is so great as to
make it in this respect
in the Empire,
world; number
There
the third port
a
Empire, if not the third in the & this question affects
larger in British ships than any.
other port excepting where is
are
of
in
Londow
& Liverpool, Sunday cargo- work
prohibited by
law.
These
is
120,000 m number, have no voice in the
amen, about Government either.
Ibong Yoong United Toing dow, & they can
of
creditable that
&
afloat fo
on ay
thie
weekly day of by
of
as in the
for State
only appeal their
just rights to the de
Secretary of Jor
the Colonies, to whom they hitherto not appealed in vain.
7. cdo the Colonial
Office
have
110
be
alware
self-governed bolonies as well
United Kingdom creditable brow
cord it is.
Law
tas surely not
that they should again
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