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forwarding a statement regarding the alleged abduction from thes Colony of a Chinaman named ~ Ch'an Tim. In this statement

man in

the wife of the

question declares that he left his house

on

the 5th February ultimo, having been induced to go to the shop of a -person called Fongsam. His wife seeing that her husband did not

return, became anxious, and, on

inquiry

at this shop,

was

informed

that he had been arrested by

Chinese authorities. At the

Ja me

the

time a letter was received from the man himself stating that he had been forcibly taken from

a

shop

B.

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shop in Hongkong, put on board a launch, and taken to Canton, where

he was

- brought before the Prefect, and committed to Gaol.

On receipt of the report of

the Registrar General, I forth with directed the Police to make stringent inquiries into this matter. The Captain

Superintendent (Mr. Deane ) reported

that Ch'an Tim

was

was in the

the Colony up

to the 5th February ultimo, but there reason to believe that he had been in prison from that date,

every

but that there was no evidence to show that force him to leave the Colony. A further

was used to cause

minute was also received from the

Registras