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Supreme Court

Frust,

if

the

for

: breach of - money applied

Avere

to other purposes than those for which it was subscribed. "The Provinsial Treasurer finding

that his commande addressed

to the Directors of a Public

Institution in HongKong

obeyed,

are not

employs

threats

which, as most of the Committee

have some Members

of

their

families residing in China

and are possessed of property

there, naturally

cause mo

little

alarm

alarm. I have represented the case to Her Majesty's Chargé

d'Affaires at Peking,

ta

Consider that the British

وی

Government is bound to protect

the Chinese who have been

attracted to settle here by the feeling of security that has hitherto prevailed, which feeling it is most important to maintain in the interests of the prosperity of the Colony. As

I have stated to Mr Conor.

the better class of Chinese are

watching

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