CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 487

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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

at

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