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passage Testing of the ninetiethriticise was ritiny ant seisure grateful for the Meterelogical ad [the Ching Mail, which first ap-and stormy, development, und eight vices and the shelters that have

peared as the pioneer of Hongyears aftegaards.. the Government, been established at later dates. Kong journalism on the 20th secured: the freedom from being Paven with the help of the rare February, 1815, claims a word offeritiejsed in their own channel of pictures of old Hong Kong it is comment and suggests “a linger-publication by rounding the Gazette, dißienty to visualise the city na it ing look behind” to those prinii-It must be admitted that the Mail was then-,small group of modes. Live days,

lucked during its early years the buildings with big spaces in be- The first settlers on the island sensational copy which it might tween them, in the after it had been reupled by Cap-have enjoyed during the previous between mountain and sea before Lain Elliott on the 23rd August, decade. The seizure and destruc- the days of reclamations, or the 1839 were not wholly without some-tion of opium by Commissioner Lin construction of the Proya. But it thing to reat, but they had for which is still the subject of his is still more difficult to realise the years tried to establish their trade torical controversy, must have made conditions of housekeeping before with Canton or Macao as their base, splendid copy to such periodicals as there was even a supply of ice from and it was only the obstacles put in existed" in 1839, and if the respon- the ships coming down the const, much less the frigidaires that are their way by those who regarded sibility for the so-called "Oplum heir trade with jealousy that in War" has not definitely been also indispensable to ya, The end created the resolve in have located yet, it is not Ikely that that the paper had to record a base of their own from which ananimity will ever be rencheldreary tale of deaths from malaria they could carry on their business But the same year had many other and dysentery; for in the absence without constant interference. In sensations, stich as riots round the f modern treatment and measures choosing Hong Kong for the sake factories that caused some casual of prevention Hong Kong was re-f uf its sheltered harbour, Captain Bes. Then there was the seizure iring the reputation as a white Elliott built better than he knew,f a trading junk off Mueno by man's grave that clung to it for for in those days of small ships of pirates, when the slaughter of the many years. light draught nobody could have whole crew of the "Black Joke," as foreseen the enormous advantage of the junk was appropriately called. tion has more than kept pace, it is harder for anyone a deep harbour in fature days af was the last straw that decided the and

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Phe sensations themselves, transfer of this patronage from the custom of those times, to be called "Canton, Register" and the "Friend "City."

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