The Chinese are eagerly buying all the land and property they can lay their hands on, and at the present rate we shall soon have none bat Celestial Inndlords ard neighbours, Only the other day, a Chinese syndicate acquired the whole of the Hum-preys" Estate and Finance Co.'s property, known as the Richmond Estate, containing 'a number of ornate, semi-detached villas, with gardens and tennis-courts, for the sum of $190,000. Since then three more European houses in the Mnedonnell Road have been sold for Chinese occupation. Rich Chinese are flocking here from and other ports to live, as they say it is safer, and they are prepared to pay almost any p es for houses, for sale oF gi rental, Already many old residents in the lower levels have been turned out by Chitose landlords to make room for native tenants who pay higher rents. They have built and are building how themselves in the midst of all the new ropean quarters, and now only the Peak is free from them. And yet the Government do not see their way clear " to set aside a European reservation, This, I suppose, would be called race legislation, and I fear that neither his pro-Chinese Excellency the Governor nor the clerks at the Colonial Office would sanction anything savouring of that. It is often complained, with too much justice, that Hongkong is now a colony for the Chinese and not for the Briton, "The servants of the European are "penly dis" obedient to him; they demand double the wages they were content with a few years ago, and do not work so well. Ifhe pockets the insult and prosecutes for disobedience, he is forthwith boycotted, and can get neither servants nor as Whichever course he chooses, lie is bound to suffer.
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