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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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