to its small success and with some justification to the unsoundness of a plan which leads to the population of their depot at Laichikok by criminals that have to be returned to China.
11. While referring to these Agents, I am glad to be able to inform you that their arrangements for the care of the emigrants at their depot at Laichikok which I inspected on the 5th instant appeared to me excellent. I am also quite satisfied that the Transvaal migration Agent takes every step to ensure that the men intending to emigrate have full knowledge of the contract into which they have to enter and desire to enter into it.
12. After careful consideration of the foregoing facts I have decided to await the arrival of Mr. Perry before suggesting further action in the matter of emigration to South Africa via Hongkong. I am not without hopes that the Kwangsi Province may still be tapped through Wuchow and though I have doubts whether we shall overcome the resistance to emigration via Canton it may be possible with the approval of the Viceroy of the Two Kwangs to collect labourers at Hong-Kong from some more distant part of Kwangtung and it may also be possible to obtain men from the Fukhien Province.
13. I annex for convenience of reference enclair versions of your telegram of the 15th of October and of one I have sent you today which summarises briefly the contents of this despatch.
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report for this purpose until arrangements are settled and in the meantime I have thought it advisable that you should
The despatch is not, I fear, suitable for presentation to Parliament, but it seems premature to make a