CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 486

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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240 signatures, in which Seven days weekly work is

argued for

four numbered paragraphs.

It would

twenty

be alike tedious

to

your

lords hip

and unne

necessary

to discuss scriatim, as is done by our correspondents, these twenty four

arguments; but we would

venture

very respectfully to submit some

considerations.

why

the

general

prayer of the petitioners should not be granted

If

seven days weekly babour be necessary for successful trade in Hong Hong, it should be for trade in the United

equally

·00

Kingdom, in which the

of cargoes

ited by

07

Sundays

by act

of

of

thousands

se

working prohib

Parliament though labourers in London.

special religious

regard

4 Liverpool have

720

3.

regard for the Sunday

ap

483

the Lord's

Day; also for those Colonies with representative institutions in which

the popular vote has also prohibited

The

the Sunday working of cargoes ;

Presidency of Bombay cooties willing

also for

with its heathen

to work cargoes

who

on Sundays, but

are prevented doing.

40

by

the Bombay Government Order of 1882, which charges.

"a permit " to do

has been now

Yong; ports of

arrd

A

fee for such work, as

enacted

at Hong,

also in the Treaty

Heather thing. Hong Kong is not

Chinese possession but Colony,

British

ов

& it should be governed

What is good.

by British laws.

brown

x

the

for every other possession

good for a Colony.

Crown is

What

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