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to Chinese Customs have been made

are

welcomed respectable natives considered

Ward,

gratefully by

by

whom

they

the

عاناة

to regards the Gpulation of the

we

third have no land

abitation but live wholly on the

water another third

considered in a state vo

May

be

tate of perpetual

migration and shifting comicile.

and even

upon

those mine respectible people who have longest inhabited

the Seland we have lately seen that

tune

than Twenty thousand have abandoned their families and Heir business at the Arbitrary

mandate of the Mandarins on the mainland. & may be doubleh I here be an oralente native in

if there be

now who would reture

Boughing

bedience to the Authorities in

China on take the bath of

or

allegiance to the Queen of bacat Britain - such a populata

Can

hardly be dealt with as the matinal boom Subjects of Hu But I fully

Majesty.

appreciate the demablemen

F

breaking down as far as possible

every distinction which is prejudicial to the interests and

the whole wellbeing of Community

and can with