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reported the fact to his superiors. Moreover the notices to the Chinese explaining the conditions of the contract to be entered into had been altered by the same individual, and, to prevent people from applying to me for advice, Ho Aloy had used other persons' signatures. All these facts would have brought home to Ho Aloy the crime of forgery, unless the parties, whose name he had used, had given him pertaission to do so. I saw heaps of these papers in Court, and obtained a copy from an Emigrant on board the "Portland," which copy is still in my hands,
With all this evidence, which must have been known to Deane and Tonnachy, how do Your Excellency account for the exculpation of Ho Aloy? How was it, that the Superintendent of Police and the Registrar General did not better discharge their duty? There can be no doubt of the fact, that the men who are now in prison, acted in concert with, if not under, the instruction of Ho Aloy, the principal contractor. Your Excellency cannot enll that justice. For what purpose has a passage broker to give security to the amount of $20,000, if he not to be held responsible for his actions ? Justice has failed; and when time shall permit me to give a sketch of the late proceedings, Your Excellency's administration will not go out free of censure.
Under these circumstances Your Excellency need not be surprised at seeing residents taking no interest in the welfare of the Colony; for a person will consider his life and character of greater value than a parcel of flattering letters from Colonial Governments. I have the honor to be
Your Excellency's
Most Obedient Servant,
m Lobschei
THE LETTER FROM BRITISH GUIANA
TO THE
REV. W. LOBSCHEID,
(Re-printed from the “Daily Press” of the 18th March, 1867.)
MY DEAR SIR-After a delay of two months
in consequence of my being unable sooner to procure the information I wished for, I now pro- deed to reply to your very welcome letter of May
27th.
I am glad to hear of the safe arrival of the acney, but fear that in consequence of the al- tered state of things relative to Chinese emi- gration, there may be some difficulty in the drugs being forwarded. If no ship be leaving for Demerara, I should think the best way would be to send them via London, unless any oppor tunity offers of a vessel going to Surinam. Ia auch case I ought to be advised of the shipment. The opinion here is that Chinese erigration must be abandoned, if the proposed restrictions are insisted on. This will be most disastrous for the colony.
I hear that Mary did not leave the colony with Ashang. I believe she is still at Pl. Great Diamond (Demerara River) with her family. Most of those who went to the Hopetown settlement and get discontented settled on this ostato. There was a young man here a few weeks since, who gave his name as John Schmidt, and statef that he was ou his way to Hongkong via Suri- nam. I believe he was engaged as an inter- pecter at the Lumigration Office in treorgetown, and I was told that he had given as a reasoTI. for leaving that he had married an extravagant Creole wife and wanted to be rid of her. When I was at Nickerie a fortnight since, Mr. Dessé told me that he had presented testimonials from you and that he had engaged him to look after a store at his estate of Pl." Paradise."
The following extract respecting How-fook's family is from a letter of the Rev. D. Smith, in whose purish they reside-The family still live at Ronie part of Pl. "Houston"]. A-yung, the son and eldest child, has been continuously em ployed since his father's death as an interpreter for the medical man visiting the Houston Hoa- pital, and thus carns sufficient for his own main- tenance. The three remaining children--all girls---are unable to work as yet, and for each of them their mother receives from the Local Board of Guardians nu allowance of $1.28 per month. The mother works occasionally. The whole family is well and thriving so far as bodily condition, is concerned, with the exception of the lad A-yung. He is very sickly, and I very much doubt if he will over reach man's estate. Should be live he will be quite incapable of any hard work."
With regard to a teacher for the Chinese here I am at present employing a man named Wong-awa, who, I believe came in the Dora. He has lost his wife, and had been out of em- ployment when I engaged him. He was for some time an agent for 0 Tye Kim, but they had some wisauderstanding, and Wong-awa left him. He is not yet baptized, and understands very little English. The knowledge of Eng lish is not of the first importance. What I want is a mum who is a real Christian bimself and of sufficient ability to preach the truth of the Gospel to his countrymen, making himself useful also in teaching the children. You say -$15 and free station;"I think if you could fuð a really good man an effort might be made to raise $15 a month for him. At present the number of Christian Chinese here is small :--- men 20, women 22, boys 11, girls II, total 64; number on the two estates 250. so that there is a large scope for missionary work. They are joat building a honse for the teacher--in which also he can assemble theut for the religious exercises the estate cottages being all oc- cupied.
In a letter recently received from the Arch- dewon, be anys--" The settlement of Hopetown is flourishing The Bishop, Mr. Brett, Mr. F. Austin, and unself visited it on Thursday (18th Oct.1, and were all greatly surprised and pleased at what we saw. They have cleared 5 miles, 2,000 feet in depth, of river and orcek margin, and erected dwellingsin ubio terrupted succession along the clearing: bare 40 oveais (cost of each. $80 for being charcoal; have plantains, ginger, sweet potatoes, and other vegetables planted nd libitum, have pige to the value of $1.000. 150 acres in rice, which in December will pickd 600 bags at 99$5,400, which will uore than pay of the original loan of $2,200 lent by the Government to start the settlement. There are 170 per le on the mission, of whom 40 are wo- men and 20 childrew. There are 10 Christians, trielly from Skeldor. They are all well clad, healby and happy. They have lost only one
person by death; one birth only. They have lately built a temporary chapel or school house of neat construction. They have three large pants of their own, besides batter, and there is constant trading with the Chinese store in town--and they have a store on the settlement They live in peace; no case having as yet had to be referred to the magistrato.”
The Bishop also writes: "We were gratified beyond measure with what we saw. The settle. ment will soon be comparatively rieb. In De cember Mr. Û Tye-kim told me that the Chinese will commencorepaying the Governmentadvance, and in four or five months afterwards the bor rowers will be quite free." In a previons letter His Loreship wrote: You will not be sorry to hear that O. Tye-kim is about to be licensed by me as a reader, and that he proposes throwing himself heartily into the work of the Church, and to devote himself wholly to the task of evangelizing his countrymen."
I have sent to you-in care of a young man named Chin-a-pow, a copy of a volume I have published, entitled El Dorade; British Guiana as a field for colonisation. I hope it will reach you safely.
Next year I shall probably be in England on leave of absence, as juy health has not been good for some time,
I had almost forgotten to mention a matter of some interest bearing on colonisation. One of the members of the Court of Paley, Mr. Gordon, of Bel Air, has given notice that at the meeting of the Combined Court next year he will propose the following resolutions
1. That from the sparseness of its present population, the productive capabilities of Bri- tish Guiana are not sufficiently developed, and any project having for its object the increase of the population and the supply of the great want of the country-labour, deserves the encouragement of the court.
2. That such a wide area of fertile land, which a bountiful Providence has placed at the disposal of the British Crown, present an at. tractive colonising field to inany who now inbabit densely-populated countries, were the advantages afforded by British Guiana made known and encouragement held out to free settlers.
3. That no colony offers a more profitable investment for capital, and were the Crown lauds thus settled, wider scope would be af- forded for its beneficial employment in the for- mation or extension of canals, tramways, steam communication, the electric telegraph, &c.; and this court therefore recommends to the Govern- ment the consideration of the question of having the Crown lunds in certain localities to be here. after determined on) surveyed and laid out in plots, due regard being had to highways and roads, with the view of taking free grants of them to settlers, upon conditions which will ensure their endtivation within a given period.
4. That in anticipation of the revendes that must arise from the increased population giving increased production, in the opinion of the court, it is sound policy to foster and aid all undertakings which, although at the first bend. ing apparently only to the advantages of the fow, yet eventually and really contribute to the well being of the many; and this court, there fore, will authorize advances of money, upor moderate interest and repayable by easy instal ments, to the free settlers upon Crown lands for the erection of luuses, nud for draining and bringing into cultivation the lands so allotted to them, such advances to be expanded under official inspection, and to forni a first lien upou the land and building until repaid with interest. 5. That the principle of raising loans of a reproductive character having been already affirmed, and for the purpose of enabling the Government to carry out the objects indicated, this court authorises the issue from time to time, in such sume us occasion may require, but not in the whole to exceed £1,000,000 sterling, of Government debentures, bearing interest, payable half-yearly at or under the rute of per cent. per sanum, to be secured upon the revenues of the colony not already plodged in security for existing loans."
I heartily wish for succese in your difficult Inbours and remain yours very faithfully.
W. T. YENESS. Chaplain.
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