and 8. C. & C. GAZETTE.—Per Annum, Taels 12; Six Months, Taels 6.
Three Months, 3.50—all payable in aul. tance. Credit price, Tls. 13.15 per Annum 3 Subscriptions will be considered as renewed unless notice to the contrary be given before the expiry of the current term, race which, in recent times, has made its presence more or less felt in the Empire, and which at the present moment is concerned in the rebellion which seems to have broken out on the frontiers of Kwangsi. In the province of Kwangtung, besides undoubted remains of the aboriginal races which inhabited the province prior to the Han dynasty, there are at least two distinct races of Chinese origin. These are locally known by the titles of Puntis and Halkkas, or residents and strangers, The titles are explicit of a condition of affairs once existing, but, like many other names once equally characteristic, have for centuries given no indication of the real position of affairs. As a matter of fact, both Puntis and Hakkas are immigrant races from more northern China, but the former had established themselves in the province some eleven or twelve centuries anterior to the appearance of the latter. The circumstances attending the advent of the Hakkas have never been thoroughly cleared up, but the troublous times in the latter period of the Sung dynasty are generally assumed as the period of their immigra-
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