ABC
done
is
the
next question
to
look to. It is
It is certainly
300
To this they answer
Has the
Laws were
of a
delusive character
= some presumption in favor
7
the fairness of the original decision, that
been
Jane
without concert
view should have
adopted
the
same
at nearly
the same moment by
Lord Stanley in
this Country, and
by a
Board of Officers
sitting at
Hong Kong itself
is Henry Pottinger also pointed
out to the gentlemen who
wrote to me on
the subject,
Y
ter, arising out of speculation, and
costs afford
no
real estate
value
That
a spirit of speculation
did
much
affect
these
transactions
will
not
readily
be
believed, but yet it
is
difficult, as
Sir Henry Pottinger
has observed, to apply any
fair test of
value
in
a
fair and open market
On the
considering the
whole, however,
there are many motives
for dealing liberally with the
Merchants
who
invested
and
others who have
their
Moneys
at Hongkong, when purchases were made,
even
though they were called upon to pay higher rates than they were originally given.
In the recent public sales higher rates had been voluntarily given.