CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865 — Page 175

4.

the documents which accompany it, show that M. Sampson has been imperfectly informed on the first too heads of complaint. The foreign compalition to which be alludes is connected with Emigration to late

Cuba

Peru, Jahiti, and Surinam. With

regard

from

the

to Cuba and Peru, it appears uports of the Governor and

дей

and

of Mr. Thomsalt the Emipation officer, :that there is no Emigration to either Country direct from Hongkong, that if any Chinese bound thither dopaf through the City on their way to Macas the Port of Embarkation

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they do not belong to the Settlement and cannot be distinguished from

the numerous visitors who resort to it.

With

regard

to Jahité and

Surinam it

that a small.

appeare

Emigration from Hongkong (about

350. to the former

and 500. to the

latter place) was going

o under

the auspièce of Mr. Lobschied the well known German Misionary who

was at one time connected with M.

Austin's Emigration to B. Guiana. 6. The Tahiti Emigration

proceeds under a formeal decree of

the French Commandant and

Imperial Commipary of the Society

reasury