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Extract of

letter from the

Morning

Correspondent of the mo.

Post dated Hong Kong March

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8

published in the Morning

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Post of April 29. 1860.

"It Covernment bagette

game

boome

published last week interesting particulars with regard to the inhabitants of Hong Hong.

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By this Gayette - nominally censers of Hong Kong for 1887-me

fisid that the grand total of hurrman souls for this small Island is 77,094, of which 86,412 are males and 20,682 are fermales. Out of this the white or European population give a grand total of 1,511, of which males count 1,007 and fernales 404. There are 46 opinion shops!"