CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10] — Page 413

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disregarded the warning of the

Viceroy of the otwo Kwang, they attempted to show that they ~

Ivere

engaged elsewhere. Failing altogether to establish this, most

of them have been sentenced by the Police Magistrates to pay fines of five dollars each. No $5. judicial notice seems to have

been taken

of

which they refuse work.

3.

the threats under.

were

influenzed to

Yesterday, the whole of

the Chinese engaged in

engaged in loading

and

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and discharging cargo, as well as

those who

ply

the

passenger boats, in obedience, it is said, to an

order given by their Guild, struck

work, and went over with their

eargo

boats and

sampans

to the

Chinese side of the harbour.

All work has

consequently been stopped in the harbour for the last two days, to the

very

serious inconvenience

of the shipping trade. A

annex, for Your Lordship's information

some extracts from

the

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