CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 204

201

کیجیے

Canton the papubice excited by the same

stories which caused so much alarm

being

---

here; that poisonous drugs distributed by persons in foreign pay rose against the authorities, burnt a neighbouring village said to be inhabited by Roman Catholic Converts, and & Protestant Missionary Chapel somewhere in the vicinity.

This circumstance shows that the

excitement is not over and as it is may extend their depredations to Canton, and as the British Mercantile Community have represented to me that the good effect produced by the visit of one of Her Majesty's Cefacls might be

possible that the rioters

endangered by her sudden departure, I think it is only prudent to ask

ہو گا

you to be pleased to authorize thei stay of the Thistle here for a few

we can ascertain

days langer until. whether the present calm here is -only temporary, or likely to be

Permanent.

Ihave t

(Signed) PJ. Hughes,

(True Rapies)

austin Martin Susting

Colonial Seen

Consul.

}