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much since this despatch written. The resident Chinese

was

may be relied on as law generally

abiding, it being their interest to be so. But there is a

very large

hardly

number of Chinese who can

be considered as residents attached

to the Colony by any daily wages, in

their daily

very

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power of putting it in forec at any time might be made subject to m obtaining previously the sanction of the Secretary of State by telegraph"; though in my opinion it would be better to entrust the responsibility to the Governor, who is on the spot and better able to judge of the necessity

other tie than

many

easts

for doing

go

small. These men come and

between Hongkong and China and,

out to themselvez

with nothing to lose, hold, a prospect

of plunder in case

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of any

disturbances.

If His Excellency shares my Ordinance might be

such an

sent home for approval before being brought before Council, and the

power

40.

It is true that Hongkong

is perfectly, tranquil

now and that

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there are no indications of trouble. But so it was before the riots of last

Cotober, and before the riots in Canton

which only

in the previous year, became serious from the fact that they were wholly unexpected and

that