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have always supplied in a good...

muumber Inissionaries acquainted with the different languages spoken. in the Colony for the spiritual attendance of the Rorian bathokies of Hougkong out of the Mission funds with the greatest disadvantage of our mission in the Mainland and there is no doubt that the

us

-facilities of spiritual attendance which we have

afforded without any reimmeration from the Colonial Government to the Rornan Catholics have greatly contributed to the Portuguese comming from the neighbouring Colony to settle with their families in Hongkong and to form

form the real foreign Community

as the rest of the

in

Hongkong

Europeans cannot be considered as settled in this Seland. But Catholic Community have lately so neuch and the development of our.

our

unch increased here.

Mission in the Inainland is so

much of late absorbing the

means which are at our

material mean

disposal that we really

really cannot more the expense of

incur any

-paying passage of 10,000 miles. - heouring responsible of the maintenance of English Portuguese and blinese speaking Clergymen the spiritual attendance to the Officers of the Government

for

and