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Yun, Acting Governor-General of the Two Kwong Provinces makes
the following communication in reply to H. B. M.'s
Consul-general.
The Acting Governor-General begs to acknow-
-ledge the receipt of H. B. M.'s Consul-General's despatch in reference to Prefect Sit Wing nin, the officer deputed to re- -side in Hongkong and supervise the emigration of Chinese to
Peru. In regard to this matter it will be remembered that a new Chinese Immigration Convention was concluded between Wu, lately
Chinese Minister to America, Peru, Mexico and Cuba, and the
Foreign Office of Peru; and the former suggested that an officer should be deputed to proceed to Hongkong and to make
investigations as often as necessary so as to prevent impersona- -tion and corruption. Being confident that the Governor of
Hongkong, who has ever been very friendly, would be very glad
to give every facility in this matter for the encouragement of
Commerce the Acting Governor-General made a communication to
H. B. M.'s Consul-General on the 24th. June last with the
request that it might be forwarded for the information of the
Governor of Hongkong, before Prefect Sit Wing-nin was directed
to proceed to Hongkong. H. B. M.'s Consul-General's despatch under acknowledgment asks that Prefect Sit be directed that he
need not go to Hongkong until the departure of the steamer. As the Chinese merchants going to Peru are very numerous, and their applications for certificates do not all come at the same time, the officer will not have enough time to investigate thoroughly into the truth of all the statements, if he is to go to Hongkong only at the time of departure. It is to be feared
that the consequence will be that the people going to Peru
might not all be merchants of good standing or that some shipping company might in the attempt to get business resort to dishonest and deceitful practices i.e. aid and abet the landing of coolies in the guise of merchants: both these cases pre-
-judice
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