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October, based on letters received from the China Association
in Hongkong and London, as well as from Messrs. Dodwell & Co.,
and the Liverpool Shipowners' Association. I have the honour
to draw your attention to the Resolutions,copies of which I
append, and which were forwarded to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies.
The demand for Chinese labour for Panama, which it is
expected will spring up in the near future, and also the con-
stant demand which exists at present in the Mexican mines,
makes shipping companies anxious to see the present prohib-
ition removed,as otherwise Fritish vessals will lose a val-
uable trade which will fall into the hands of their German
or Norwegian rivals,probably under less favourable condit-
ions than in ours.
I may mention that Messrs. Dodwell & Co. made a second
unsuccessful attempt in Shanghai in September last, to des-
patch another British ship, the "Bessie Dollar" to Mexico with
coulies under contract. The attempt failed as it had done at
Foochow, permission to clear being refused by His Vajesty's
Consul General. Sir H. de Sausmares,who was appealed to for
an