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of the Periodical Prez

his views of the

of the Colony at that period.

The Hongkong Register

3.

was

the w

oroned

and edited

by Mr John Cairns. That gentleman quitted the Colony some time since, and the

Press has become the property If Mr Robert Stracker. This paper is stated by Sir John Davis to have been printed almost exclusively for the

one

purposes of

of our principal. houses of agency; but this I

now the

do not believe to be case. _ It seems to be conducted with fairness and honesty of purpose,

and is

I understand, taken in and read by the

same. Description of persons.

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as support the "China mail""," but it has not so extensive

Corenlation in England

the latter paper

4.-

as

The "Friend of China",

heretofore owned and edited by Mr John Cars, has recently

in

been transferred to Mr Williams Tarrant, a person formerly Government Services, and who, it will be within Your Lordthifit Las recently sent

recollection,

home

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Petition to the Queen complaining of his having been dismissed from public employment._ During

the time this Paper under the management

was

of Mr Care, it was generally

very

abusive in its observations

towards the

Officers of the