CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9] — Page 178

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Lin

Central Police Station

21st June 1881.

I have the honor to report for your information, the result of enquiries I have made respecting certain Coolies lie

floor of N = 6 Aleerdeen Street:

There

living

on the First

aze

about so

been

riding, there who have engaged in the Yau- ping, Hirking and Hok shan districts, to proseed to Victoria, Vancouver's Island, to be employed in making railway. They say will be about $26 per mouth each.

Their

paseage money, about

theve

wages

$42 per man, will be paid by the stwong - Lin. Tai Hong, 98 Winglok Street, but they will repay.

double that

or 100 per

cent, after their arrival.

they

engaged and brought.

to this Colony by two men who live

at the Kwong-Ying Loong Papershop,

Nr 140 Bucer's Road Central,

named Tee Thing Sham,

Isé a-it, respectively. Chore twis

who have

to Victoria,

already

beer

6

Aberdeen ittreet while I was

there n

making.

the Cooties

red reluctant

enquiries, and

to have anyth

anything to say

in

their presence. The first n

rents the floor the le colies live

022

Their passages are obtained of the Lai Hing Finn of Passage Brokers, 89 Queer's Road Central, to go by the American ship XXenia, which is expected to sail about the 23rd or 24th instant, with 300 Coolies besides for the same kind

of employ.

I have &€

Wat Deane, Esq. (Se) W. Stanton

Capt : Supt : of Police.

Acting Inspector.

Submitted

at

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