From Wikimedia Commons. Original source: My Colonial Service in British Guiana, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Fiji, Australia, Newfoundland, and Hong Kong with Interludes
Title: Chair-carriages in Hong Kong, showing Countess de Bardi on the left, and William Des Vœux with his daughter on the right.
Note that the countess had four chair carriers, and the governor eight(!).
Date picture taken
1888
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I originally thought that…
I originally thought that chairs with eight carriers were reseserved for Royal Visitors only, see here and here.