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during this period, because he wanted 4 dollars a week from me, and I could not earn so much. At the Kung On Club I paid to him $15. I had many times asked him to release me for a small sum. He agreed that I should pay him $50 altogether, and the $15 I paid him at the Kung On Club were part of the $50. I was summoned to appear before the Registrar General last year and I had to pay him $20. This $20 were paid to him of my own free will, and no one in the Pó Léung Kuk askel me to do it. This is to be a final settlement, and he gave me a written receipt and release for it."
HO KAI.
August 5th, 1892.
Brief history of the Case.
In January last a blindman, named CH'AN SHING, came to the Registrar General's Office and complained that his wife, named CHU YING, had deserted him. The Registrar General sent for CHU YING, who denied that she was the wife of CI'AN SHING. As it occurred to the Registrar General that there might have been some domestic squabble between the parties, for which perhaps both were to blame, he requested the Committee of the Pó Léung Kuk to try to arrange an amicable settlement between them. The Pó Léung Kuk inquired into the matter and ascertained that CHU YING was not the legal wife of CH'AN SHING, but that she had been taken by him out of a brothel in Canton; that she had had to earn a livelihood for them both for some time, and that, as CH'AN SHING became more exacting, she had left him. The Committee were unable to effect a reconciliation between the parties, CHU YING declaring that she would have nothing more to do with CH'AN SHING; so the Registrar General, in the presence of CH'AN SHING, informed CHU YING that she was free to do as she liked.
Appendix 23.
Case of Hak Kwat Mán referred to by the Honourable T. H. Whitehead in his questions answered by Inspector Stanton,
Extract from Evidence given by Inspector Stanton.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Do you know anything of HAK KWAT MAN who is supposed to carry on a large trade in women ?
A. I have heard of him.
Q. Do you know whether he tried, some time ago, to pass a woman for Singapore?
A.-I beard so.
Q.-Was that woman taken afterwards to the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.-She was.
Q.-Was she afterwards liberated on the payment of a certain sum of money?
A.-I heard so.
Q.—What amount did you hear it was ?
A.-$20.
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 10th August, 1892.
MY DEAR GENERAL GORDON,
Will you kindly ask Inspector STANTON if he has found any clue which will enable me to trace the case of HAK KWAT MAN and the woman he is alleged to have taken out of the Pó Léung Kuk on payment of $20 ?
Yours truly,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART.
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