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For the present I am taking no further
action. While the establishment of regular emigration from
here to South Africa would be of little or no advantage to
this Colony our continued pressure on either the Provincial
Authorities or on the Central Goverment of China to secure
this traffic, which is presented in nearly as an unfavourable
a light in the Chinese Newspapers as by a section of the press
in England, is not likely to improve the position of Hongkong
in the eyes of either the rulery or the people of China. It is
also obviously inadvisable, from the point of view of the
Colony's interests to proceed in the discussion with the
Chinese Authorities to the point where threats of some retalia-
-tory action become necessary especially at the time when
delicate negotiations for the Canton-Kowloon Railway are being
initiated with them. Again the approaching change in the
holder of the Viceroyalty of the Two Kwang is an argument
against now attempting to press a scheme to which the present
Viceroy has shewn himself averse. Finally Mr. V. J.Jamison
formerly Commercial Attaché at Peking who has recently been
appointed to supervise Chinese labour in the Transvaal in an
interview I had with him on the 7th. instant asked me to take
no action for the present as he is in favour of obtaining
any further supply of this labour that may be required from
the North where the labourers are in his opinion physically
better suited than those of the Southern Provinces for the
work required of them in the Transvaal.
11.
It is scarcely necessary for me to add
that should you determine that the interests of South Africa
imperatively require that emigration from South China should
be
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