Financial Point of View: There is not a 100-apparent-prospect of Any Wong holding any ...
Mony it is not apparent that Any Wong will hold any ...
Government. The limited size, and nature of the island; the rocky nature; the absence of agriculture, principally or concerns; and the fluctuating character of the population and the type of a juvenile population raised to sustain the Establishment, are factors that have been adopted, and which indeed it is.
The regular revenue available is far from being adequate to meet the present or prospective wants of the island community: hence for years the wants of the island community have not been met.
Under the most favorable circumstances, where revenue may possibly be obtained from the rest of the sources, it is estimated that £5000 may be raised from sales, licenses, fines, and fees of every description, which may realise hereafter about £1000 per annum.
The levy of a tonnage duty would not yield more than £500 to £1000 a year: if it did not drive the ships that now enter the harbor away, it is not probable that vessels would pay tonnage merely to call for orders, as they can lie in Macao roads and have daily communication with Hong Kong.
A registration license for each male Chinese resident on the Island might, if there is a stable respectable class of inhabitants in the Colony, produce £500 to £1000 a year. Neither auction duties, sales of ships, nor any of the other ordinary sources of taxation would, under present circumstances, yield any revenue worth consideration.
The idea that the Chinese Government will sanction the introduction of Opium into China is ...