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(paragraph 3) "Few of the Chinese are permanent settlers, but only temporary residents coming to Hongkong to avail themselves of the facilities offered by British rule for earning money, with which they propose to return to their own country, to end their days amongst their own people.

Commenting upon this passage, Dr. Ayres remarks (paragraph 99): "Seeing the benefit that it is acknowledged they (the Chinese) receive from British rule, is it too much that they should be required to conform to British laws, instead of the British laws, against the interests of the British people, being made to conform to Chinese ideas? They do not come here with philanthropic ideas of benefiting the Colony any more than the Europeans, but with the same desire of realizing a competence, and clearing out as soon as possible. One would think, to hear the sympathy that has been wasted on the native population, that we had come here as conquerors of a populous place, instead of having converted a barren island into a prosperous Colony, in which

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(paragraph 3) "Few of the Chinese are permanent settlers, but only temporary residents coming to Hongkong to avail themselves of the facilities offered by British rule for earning money, with which they propose to return to their own country, to end their days amongst their own people. Commenting upon this passage, Dr. Ayres remarks (paragraph 99): "Seeing the benefit that it is acknowledged they (the Chinese) receive from British rule, is it too much that they should be required to conform to British laws, instead of the British laws, against the interests of the British people, being made to conform to Chinese ideas? They do not come here with philanthropic ideas of benefiting the Colony any more than the Europeans, but with the same desire of realizing a competence, and clearing out as soon as possible. One would think, to hear the sympathy that has been wasted on the native population, that we had come here as conquerors of a populous place, instead of having converted a barren island into a prosperous Colony, in which Page 446 8 9
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