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the now use

of torture.

Reference to the previous correspondence, and to the Report of the Royal...

Summary of the Case in yours under... really shews that the man... daughter was when Lai-li-heen's very young contracted in marriage by her grandmother to the son of a man named H. "Kai-Chay, and that, as the girl grew up, she exhibited the greatest repugnance to the engagement, preferring not to marry at all to being united to the intended bridegroom.

It has been... many times... referred to be a leper, and was since denied that he is a leper, but the girl appears still to believe it, and whether he be or not, her aversion to the man is apparently insuperable and was declared by her to be so in an interview with His Excellency the Governor on the 16th July.

3.

At that interview the father (Lai-li-heen) stated that his daughter had been born in Hong Kong, a fact which he was prepared to prove by numerous witnesses. He also affirmed that with the exception of intervals, not exceeding in the whole three years, she had been brought up and educated in Hong Kong, a statement which...

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147 the now use of torture. Reference to the previous correspondence, and to the Report of the Royal... Summary of the Case in yours under... really shews that the man... daughter was when Lai-li-heen's very young contracted in marriage by her grandmother to the son of a man named H. "Kai-Chay, and that, as the girl grew up, she exhibited the greatest repugnance to the engagement, preferring not to marry at all to being united to the intended bridegroom. It has been... many times... referred to be a leper, and was since denied that he is a leper, but the girl appears still to believe it, and whether he be or not, her aversion to the man is apparently insuperable and was declared by her to be so in an interview with His Excellency the Governor on the 16th July. 3. At that interview the father (Lai-li-heen) stated that his daughter had been born in Hong Kong, a fact which he was prepared to prove by numerous witnesses. He also affirmed that with the exception of intervals, not exceeding in the whole three years, she had been brought up and educated in Hong Kong, a statement which...
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147

the now use

ིན་

of torture.

Steference of the previou

Correrordena and b, the Tîa

Roy;

Summary of the Case in yours under

relly shews that the

that the man

daughter

was

when

Lai-li-heen's

very young

contraclit in marriage by her grandmother to the

son of a

a muau

namen H. "Kai-Chay, and that, as the girl grew up, she exhibited

the

greatest repugnance to the cupagement, preferring not to

at all to being united lo a the intended Pridegroom

It has been

maviy

lefer-

As

was refuted to be.

since denied that he is a lefer, but the girl appears still to believe it,

and whether he be her aversion to the

a

leper

r not,

man is

apparently insuperable and was declared by her to be es in an interview with bis Excellency the Governor on the 16 Jultims.

3.

At that interview the father (Lai-li-heen) stated that his daughter. had been born in Hong Kong,

fact which he was

prove by

freared to

numerous witnesses. Ste

also affirmed

that with the

exception

of intervals, not exceeding in the whole from

3 b

years

she had been

brought up and educated in bonghony_ a statement which

as

desfile the inference to the combran

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