Commercial Report
Synopsis of
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for
H. M. Government
R.M. Martin
Chiria
1844745
Memorandum.
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In the 12 Hrible M. EXladstone.
Cu
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Colony
be
ear
prever
and
Hong Kong cannot be
viewed as Emporium
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Commercial
By reason of its limited size
barren structures,
rocky, biti
incapacity of producing any
of the necessaries of life for the
consumption of even
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and
under
any
orre
day
circumstances
cannot be expected to afford
any
considerables revenue towards
the payment of its own
in
*
pentes
By reason of its disadvantagens geographical position; - from the far greater facilities for trade afforded by Canton & by other ports and places in China; _ by
the distance from
any populous or productive territory;- by the poverty and peratical character of the adjacent islanders & inhabitants,
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the total absence of an
import or export hade of any kind' after nearly five years occupation & a very large governmental & private expenditures, and as further demonstrated, by the Americans, Parsees" Chinese Merchants
or even shop keepers with the smallest pretention to
[öllerchants Memorial to Lord
Stanley - China 13th Aug± 184,5]