learn the deliveries
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are v·2014~
confined to
the actual consumptions of the place,
Some Thirty Chests a month !
System
In support of the present in
we know
has been
Singapere has
Referred by the Houble Majort Caine when
Acting
Colonial secretary . We may
perhaps be allowed to know
something of Singapore, our . Mr. Boustead having
resided there upwards of fifteen years in the management of a business which
him an
give hims
opportunity of forming opinion on the subject. If the Opium
trade at Singapore
тележе
any thing like
what it is here, and a Macao and
bumsingmoon
us near to it as
are to HongKong,
wve aIG
& quite
they
sure
that the Farm there would not last a month: The buyere of... opiume at that place are chiefly
native
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native traders, from all parts of the
Archipelage, who have
no other market
to resort to for the sale of their produce, which they of course must sell before they
can make their purchases, of these purchases Opium, ferns but a small- part ; These traders besides go there,
rémaint as
long as they please, transad
their business.
business, and depart without
any questions being asked thems The
Opiume Former is not allowed
to keep armed Cruisers and to board the harber, there,
beat entering
boat
every the clause of the Opiums Ordinance, Compelling him to obtain a search Warrant before boarding any he mo
may suspect of selling opium illegally, is Rigidly enforced. Cases of
hardship, de occasionally scene; parties
are
sometimes from malicious motives
e from
brought