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tohose presence in Hong Kong

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considered as dangerous to the peace

and good order

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the Colony. Orders

of banishment for five years were then

Xecreed against a lucruber

these

people, and it was directed that they should be detained by the Police until the time specified in the orders for leaving the Colony, any reasonable facility being accorded for settling their affairs, whew -required. As it was believed that dorul

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there mew would if they returned to China, be beheaded or other worse punished,

special instructions were given to the reting Captain Superintendent of Police that they were not to be compelled to go back to Clivia

against their will

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and that they were to be informed that the alternative to leaving this Colony for any other place that they might select would be imprisonment - in the Hong Kong fail

3.

Ine promulgation of theer som Tue Ordinance appears to have given

general satisfaction in the Colony . About 16000 Arius of different kinds were taken possession of yesterday by the

Police,

and will be stored until they have been exported or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the provisions

the law. Up to the present moment. the persons whose banishment hasbien decreed have been found. It

of

only 7 of

to supposed that the arrest and ann

baishment