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No. 309..

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH DECEMBER, 1880..

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Correspondence is published for general information.

By Command,

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FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th December, 1880.

EMIGRATION FROM HONGKONG.

C. H. HASWELL, JR., ESQUIRE, TO ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

AGENCY, OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAM-SHIP CO.,

HONGKONG, 22nd November, 1880.

DEAR SIR,--Our head office in San Francisco have made a provisional agreement with Mr. C. KOOPMANSCHAP to transport a number of free Chinese Emigrants hence to Honolulu by the steamers of this Company.

Prior to taking further action in this matter, I beg to be informed whether if, it being our desire to carry out such an agreement, it will be the pleasure of His Excellency the Governor to grant our steamers licence to clear from this port for San Francisco viâ Yokohama and Honolulu with said free Emigrants or board.

I have the honour to be,

Your obedient servant,

C. H. HASWELL, JUN., Agent.

The Honourable FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 1659.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY TO C. H. HASWELL, JR., ESQUIRE.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, 24th November, 1880.

SIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd instant respecting Mr. KOOPMANSCHAP's proposed emigration of Chinese to Honolulu.

2. Governor Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY desires me to state, in reply, that he will be very happy to consider in Council any application of the kind, under the Imperial Emigration Act and the Emigra- tion Ordinances of this Colony.

3. To prevent any misconception as to what may or may not be considered to be Contract Emi- gration, I am directed by His Excellency to enclose for your information a printed copy of some cor- respondence respecting Chinese Emigration to Honolulu, and to invite your attention to the last para-" graph in the Acting Colonial Secretary's letter of the 30th of January, 1879, to Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., and to the enclosures in the Acting Colonial Secretary's letter of the 18th of Feb- ruary, 1879, to Messrs. RUSSELL & Co.

C. H. HASWELL, Jr., Esquire,

Agent, O. & 0. S. S. Co.

I have, &c.,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary. ›

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ENCLOSURES IN THE FOREGOING LE STR.

MESSRS. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. TO ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

HONGKONG, 27th January, 1879. SIR,-As Agents for the Belgian steamer Perusia, now lying in this Harbour, we venture to address you upon the subject of the conveyance by the said steamer of Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to Honolulu and Peru, with the object of your laying the matter before His Excellency the Governor.

2. We are given to understand that a very considerable number of well-to-do Chinese, chiefly of the shop-keeping and trading class, are desirous of proceeding both to Honolulu and Peru.