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wxist in China, except as members of

E.H. Parker relates how

M

organized guild

his

pening

a

some Chriese isty, his first visitor

new consulate in

the head of the

beggars guild, his second the head of the thieves' guild.

times I have ever seen

when

haggars in Hongkong

were

a

The

nly Sunday

the road to bay from the Portuguese

they gathered retioning from mass, and one Riving when there were Hongkong, and beggan wad to

bay from them

the

camp

to

year at the time of the boxer a number of Indian A.S.C. clanks in wait at the approaches to

uned to wait at the

and receive alms (which they

would not have done from Chinese).

enquiry

(4). No

stakes

in the com

f

would he needed into

The financial

application for relief

CAM

The ground

an

of incapacity from age,

consideration,

sickness

on accident. The only

with Workmen's Compansation and National

Health at home, would be the nature, extent and cause

the incapacity.

workman, wherever born and

(5). Any work Every workman

however short a time resident in the Colorry, would be

qualified. I wonder if even tom

working

men

were

percent of the Hongkong bom in the Colony. It is not likely; workmen

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cannot afford to bring their families to Hongkong. Two an

Three weeks

ago,

I received.

a

letter from my

ofd

Gay's

's son

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