No. 57.
to the Governor of Hoy. Kony.
I am fin
Your most obedient
humble rewant
Itt Sanderson,
(No. 12.) My Lord,
Acting Consul Parker to the Marquis of Salisbury-(Received June 12.)
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Kiungchow, May 5, 1891.
I HAVE the honour to inclose a free translation of a Chinese State paper touching your Lordship's Department.
It appeared in the Chinese "Shiên Pao" of Shanghae on the 20th April, but only reached me to-day.
As it does not touch the business of this office, I have kept no copy.
(Translation.)
I have, &c.
(Signed) E. H. PARKER.
Inclosure in No. 57.
RECO
Chinese State Paper about Consuls in the Colonies.
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Memorial (1) upon the expediency of appointing further Consuls in British possessions for the protection of Chinese subjects; and (2) considering the general question of sending officers gradually afterwards to the various islands in the South Seas, respectfully submitted to the Sacred Glance.
IN the year 1886 Chang Chi-tung, Governor-General of the Two Kwang, deputed Colonel Wang Sung-ho and the Prefect Shê K'iung to make inquiry into the mercantile condition of the Chinese in the various isles of the south. In his Report he stated that the deputies had visited over twenty ports, and he estimated that the appointment of three Consuls-General would be advisable at three different places in the British, Dutch, and Spanish islands, with several Consuls and Vice-Consuls under each. The Tsung-li Yamên sent in its Report in reply, which is on record.
In the month of August 1890 your servant received a despatch from the Tsung-li Yamên stating that they had received a Report from Admiral Ting Ju-chang,* through the Admiralty Board, stating that "on his present cruize he had found that at none of the following places near to Singapore were any Consular officers appointed, to wit: Penang, Malacca, Johore, Fujung [ Pahang], Selangore, and Perak; and at all these places the Chinese traders had flocked to him to complain of the bullying and fleecing su they underwent, and to pray his assistance;" and that it was proposed to appoint a Vice-Consul to each of these places, taken from the ranks of the respectable and well- to-do merchants of the place, and to put them all under the jurisdiction of the Consul at Singapore; that it would be first necessary to arrange the matter with the said† Foreign Office, and obtain their exequaturs; if this could be done, Chinese subjects would really derive great benefit therefrom.
* Admiral Lang's "colleague" during the late cruize, which ended in the former's resignation.
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