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Mail. Itt a meeting of the Executive Conneil held on 15th
instant the Cloting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Stewart, informed
the Council "that he had been
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told by respectable Chinese that :. The passing of the Peace preservation
Ordinance and the action taken by the Government under its m provisions has had a most
salutary effect,
no less than
three hundred bad characters
having banished themselves from
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the Colony through fear of being
" banished
banished by the Government. "Further that the benishment of the
old man
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Yau-but-in has been
" most favourably received by
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"the native population." "The old man here referred to is about seventy years of age, and has bren Known for
past
some time
to the Volice as an
influential -leader or Head Centre of the Triads. According to secret information received by the Police, a
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of
($3,000), three thousand dollars sent from
Canton, to be employed in
attempting
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