HONGKONG
港香
香 Heuug-hong
The Island of Hongkong (which gives its name to the British Colony in South China) is situated off the coast of the Kwangtung province, near the mouth of the Canton river. It is distant about 40 miles from Macao and 90 from Canton, and lies between 22 deg. 9 min. and 22 deg. 17 min. N. lat. and 114 deg. 5 min. and 114 deo 18 min. F lone The Chinnan
CONSIDER AUSTRALIAN TRADE.
Australia is the logical Source of Supply for Eastern markets particularly in PRIMARY PRODUCTS—FOODSTUFFS AND RAW MATERIALS.
AN AUSTRALIAN BUYING SERVICE.
We offer our Services as a Commission Buying and Shipping House, and will Buy, Collect and arrange to Ship orders for any number of Suppliers under one B/L.
We are also in a position to make firm C.I.F. and E. offers of BULK MERCHANDISE such as Flour, Wheat, Butter, Meat, Hides, Tallow, etc.
AN AUSTRALIAN SELLING SERVICE.
As Merchandise Brokers we can sell a variety of Eastern Products and we are prepared to negotiate with regard to appointing SUITABLE SELLING AGENTS throughout the Commonwealth for Manufacturers and others desirous of taking advantage of the Australian Market.
Enquiries for either of the above are cordially invited.
Mercantile Brokers.
Exporters of Primary Produce Manufacturers' Agents.
Import and Export.
Cables: "BOLTONCO," BRISBANE.
Codes used: Bentley's & Bentley's Second.
Bankers: COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA, LTD.
P. B. BOLTON & Co.,
ALBERT HOUSE,
289, Albert Street,
BRISBANE,
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Authorities, became painfully evident. As early as 1834 Lord Napier, smart- ing under his insolent treatment by the Viceroy at Canton, urged the Home Government to send a force from India to support the dignity of his com- mission. "A little armament," he wrote, "should enter the China seas with the first of the south-west monsoon, and on arriving should take possession of the island of Hongkong, in the eastern entrance of the Canton river, which is admirably adapted for every purpose. Two years later Sir George Robin- son, endorsing the opinion of Lord Napier that nothing but force could better the British position in China, advised "the occupation of one of the islands in this neighbourhood, so singularly adapted by nature in every respect for commercial purposes. In the early part of 1839 affairs approached a crisis, and on the 22nd March, Captain Elliot, the Chief Superintendent of Trade, re- quired that all the ships of Her Majesty's subjects at the outer anchorages of Canton should proceed forthwith to Hongkong, and, hoisting their national colours, be prepared to resist every act of aggression on the part of the Chinese
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