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to $400 fourth above 3400 sty. per annum
Church Service is conducted under a mat-shed; the Civil, and Military Officers and others tend to
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location, or even a room is ... the prices of
xuy shot on any terms, and living
b
of servants for (see do currentacy
apprendike I are enormous,
while the
whole population of the Island is entirely dependant for its daily supply of food:
the Pauper of @suna's subjects
land of China.
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the
the
Commerce There is no Trade of any
noticeable extent in
Hong Kong, vessels
way to
or occasionally touch here, on their
Canton,
or on their return from thence
when laden, and about to proceed to
Europe, for orders, vessels also proceeding to, or coming from, the Ports to the Northward sometimes touch here for instructions from the Owners/ agents
but very few break bulk at Hong Kong.
There is some business done in Opium; Mess. Jardine Matheson & Co. have a
large Opium "Receiving Ship the_
Commuere
moored
the
whole
year
round in this harbor
large
a
Mess Dent & Co. have also a
vessel the Red Rover for a similar
purpose.
These receiving ships contain the Opium brought from India where it is transhipped to smaller vessels, and
sent up
the Coast. Mess
Fork-Rawson & Co.