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A start was also being made on the North Side by working day and night running a gullet through to the tunnel face, but the coolies were driven back to Kowloon by the typhoon.
5. The last fortnight's weather has been most trying, the coolie lines etc., which took months to erect and arrange for, have all nearly gone and labour is so dear and scarce that they are difficult to replace.
6.
Arrangements had been made for driving the headings at the North Side, coolies had been collected and trained and now everything is upset. The coolies are scattered for want of houses to live in and the shaft hopelessly wrecked.
The two miners, who have just arrived, say that they do not think it worth while trying to retimber it.
7. I am doing my best to get the coolie lines up again, but the typhoon of 29th destroyed a lot of material which was being towed round to Shatin Valley.
8. I have made arrangements for a lot of imported coolies and it will be very difficult to get these lines up by the time they are due to arrive.
9.
Looking forward to the future, the outlook for getting the work pushed through is much more hopeful, as Contractors are turning up here from Burmah and are ready to import coolies from there. This will be cheaper, I think, than importing from North China and they will probably stand the climate better than Tientsin coolies.
10. One Punjabi contractor has started on a cutting near Kowloon and also on 2 bridges. A great number of Punjabis are emigrating to Vancouver, changing steamers...
595
4.
A start was also being made on the North Side by working day and night running a gullet through to the tunnel face, but the coolies were driven back to
Kowloon by the typhoon.
5. The last fortnight's weather has been most trying, the coolie lines etc., which took months to erect and arrange for, have all nearly gone and labour is so dear and scarce that they are difficult to re-
place.
6.
Arrangements had been made for driving the headings at the North Side, coolies had been collected The cooli es and trained and now every thing is upset. are scattered for want of houses to live in and the
The two miners, who have just shaft hopelessly wrecked. arrived, say that they do not think it worth while try-
ing to retimber it.
7. I am doing my best to get the coolie lines up again, but the typhoon of 29th destroyed a lot of material which was being towed round to Shatin Valley.
8. I have made arrangements for a lot of import ed coolles and it will be very difficult to get these lines up by the time they are due to arrive.
9.
Looking forward to the future, the outlook for getting the work pushed through is much more hopeful,
as Contractors are turning up here from Burmah and are
This will be cheaper ready to import coolies from there.
I think, than importing from North China and they will probably stand the climate better than Tientsin co oli es.
10. One Punj aubi contractor has started on a
cutting near Kowloon and also on 2 bridges.
A great
number of Punjabis are emigrating to Vancouver changing
steamers
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