Hongkong, Aug. 4.
A number of shipowners, includ-jing Moller and Ca. and the Wollowra Steamshi Ca. of Shanghai, whose vessels were requisitioned by ip ghai the Government, have presented a petition to the Governor and the Legislative' Council protesting against the compensation tendered by the proposed Ordinance as being wholly inadequate. They claim that the Bill should be so modified as to save the petitioners' rights to prosecute their claims unimpaired in Courts or in the alternative that the Government should distribute the sum of $2,231,204, which it secured as profits, "rateable" amongst the petitioners, who argue that the {Bill in its present form is, in their opinion, unwarranted, unjust, inequitable and unfair and represents an attempt to tax.ships not registered in the Colony.
Extraorpinary (Competition 70
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