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being far

cat, migratory, and

more commercial

maritime in their hobets than any

other natives

of China. Their spoken language is altogether unintelligible to the people of Canton, between whour and themselves a sucies of irreconcileable fend has existed from time immemorial. Hence

they

cannet inhabit the same n

neighbourhood without quarrels and occasionally bloody + conflicts .

lease of ea.

The rule invariably followed in

the disposal of lands has been, in pursuance of your Lordship's instructions, to put the

seach lot up to public auction. When the Fokion, for us they are commonly styled -applied for a grant of

here Kinchew)

land, it was clear that in a con

competition

with the Canton men

they

would either be

of the

I

excluded altogether, to the great debriment

- commercial prospects of this Colony, or mingled with the Canton, me

en to the

to the prejudice.

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of general peace and order. It appeared so important to secure the settlement of this

valuable class of people poho in the present

instance

dre

persons of substance) that the

Conneil unanimously

4

concurred with me as

to the expediency of granting them a special location at the average price of similar lots of land. The Canton people having settled at the "Western extremity of Victoria, deemed advisable to

to fix the Folien the opposite extremity on the East. They

have

it

men

was

at

e cocordingly been placed much to their satisfaction in the

tion in the neighbourhood of East point, and have commenced building on five contiguous lots of land, measuring together

annual

450 by 50 feet, of which the aggregate rental will be £47. 19.4. The sale is therefore sufficiently, advantageous even in a pecuniary point of view

In connection with this subject I

am