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b

reason to feel confident that the Emigrants from Hongkonf

will be batter circumstanced

than those described by M. gerningham. 5. Again has reported, with reference to migration from Hongkong to the west Indies- that emigrants cannot be procured in Honthong in any numbers without the Employment of Native Agents

Shir R. Macdonnell

on the mainland- and it is

connected

ne co

admitted by everyone with Rhino that such Native

A

sute cannot bermployed

ithout risk of the most atrocious abuses. It was the

employment of these agentö

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their malpractices that made the so nifasion mmigration from reacas so and though such serious abuses as were there practiced could not it may be hoped, creape deleation in a British Colony, get the power and cunning of native

Crimpe

are so peat that it

would not be

possible to feel

confidence

Pidence on the

anc

on the subjesh. I

ofraid also it must be added looking to the case

4

ie

of

the "Dayssing" - that the migration Department in Hongkong hardly alive to the importance the dutice it has to perform,

of the

fa

and to the neceficty of a strict

and und

empromizing Enforcement

Law.

of the provisions of the dewd