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# Emigration from Wuchow
## Report on Progress
1. It is necessary to reimburse the Chinese Authorities the travelling expenses referred to in order to facilitate the full realisation of the scheme of emigration from Wuchow.
2. The first batch of emigrants from Kwangsi was expected in Hongkong on the 17th instant. It is true that it is only a small one of 21 coolies, but it is satisfactory to know that a beginning has actually been made and I am not without hopes that success will now attend the scheme of recruitment at Wuchow.
3. I thought it advisable, however, to cause the letter of which I enclose a copy to be sent on the 13th instant to the Consul-General, who embodied its contents in a Despatch to the Viceroy on the following day.
4. I have not yet asked for Canton or any other place in the Kwangtung Province to be declared a Port of Embarkation under the Convention because I desire that local opposition to emigration from that province should be got over before any steps are taken to start it.
5. In the meantime, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, impatient of the delay that has unavoidably occurred in starting the emigration at Wuchow and under a misapprehension of the scope of the Convention, have introduced a serious complication by sending recruiters into the Kwangtung Province to recruit emigrants for embarkation at Hongkong for South Africa.
6. The result has been that the Chinese Authorities have arrested several of these recruiters and that the Viceroy has addressed a Despatch to His Majesty's Consul-General in which he charged the recruiters with malpractices.
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# Emigration from Wuchow
## Report on Progress
1. It is necessary to reimburse the Chinese Authorities the travelling expenses referred to in order to facilitate the full realisation of the scheme of emigration from Wuchow.
2. The first batch of emigrants from Kwangsi was expected in Hongkong on the 17th instant. It is true that it is only a small one of 21 coolies, but it is satisfactory to know that a beginning has actually been made and I am not without hopes that success will now attend the scheme of recruitment at Wuchow.
3. I thought it advisable, however, to cause the letter of which I enclose a copy to be sent on the 13th instant to the Consul-General, who embodied its contents in a Despatch to the Viceroy on the following day.
4. I have not yet asked for Canton or any other place in the Kwangtung Province to be declared a Port of Embarkation under the Convention because I desire that local opposition to emigration from that province should be got over before any steps are taken to start it.
5. In the meantime, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, impatient of the delay that has unavoidably occurred in starting the emigration at Wuchow and under a misapprehension of the scope of the Convention, have introduced a serious complication by sending recruiters into the Kwangtung Province to recruit emigrants for embarkation at Hongkong for South Africa.
6. The result has been that the Chinese Authorities have arrested several of these recruiters and that the Viceroy has addressed a Despatch to His Majesty's Consul-General in which he charged the recruiters with malpractices.