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What is right at home & in Colonies where the populations. have representative Governments
& can
make their voices heard
: by their rulers.
cannot be
wrong in those British Colonies in
which the secretary of state is himself the people's representative. so the people of Hong Hong appeal through the local press your
ainst these 240 petition
lordship ag
ers
& their petition ·
te
This matter.
of working
has been
ozz
Sunday
cargoes under public consideration at
Hong Kong, through the local
press, the Chamber
the
Commerce,
Mercantile Marine officers,
& the Colonial Government, since 1888, when the Petition to the Gor
:overnor praying for Sunday rest
was
484
signed by 579 Captains &
on shore
officers of ships, besides 60 persons connected with shipping including the Heads
97
the dock
Company's departments, Gloyd's Surveyor, blerks in shipping.
offices, hc.
The Chamber
har
at Hong Hong
in the
Came
7
Commerce
tvad
approached
year, 1888, by the Seamen's Chaplain, the Reverend cArthur Gurney Goldsmith, Moch,
arra
they officially replied tohim that the object sought to be ob-
worthy of every "couragement' but would be
tained was
unfair "unless
an
ezz
unyielding
"law applicable to all classes
"arro
nationalities.
оз
vessels were
"passed"
Some
оз
the local press
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