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Government House,

Hongkong, 10th. April, 1905.

FOR

USE

AFRICAN

No.76:

COLONIAL OFFICE

In continuation of my Confidential Des-

patch of the 31st. October, 1904, I have the honour now to

remort the steps taken subsequent to that date in the matter

of the emigration of Chinese labourers from Hongkong to South

Africa, steps which I regret have led to no result.

2

Early in November when some 80 labourers

had been collected at the depot at Wuchow by the Kwangsi

Authorities the Agents for the Mining Companies declined to

accept any more men from that source ostensibly on the grounds

of criminals having been sent from there. The depôt was ac-

cordingly closed and has not since been reopened.

3

As regards Canton, in the seventh paragraph

of my Despatch above referred to I informed you of the dif-

-ficulty that had arisen on account of the Wai Wu Pu, at the

instance of the Chinese Minister in London, having objected

to transhipment at Hongkong of labourers recruited in Kwang

Tung. On the 12th. November Mr. C. W. Campbell, the Acting

Consul-General at Canton, in consequence of a private intima-

tion from a reliable source that this objection might be over-

-come by the Provincial Government, addressed a Despatch to

the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

&c ...

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