N73.
Commercial.
18-4:
RECEIVEL
AUG21
463
1651. Hongkong
rcommend a referente al dute
*Tea via
Sin Hong Kong.
is the She spring
Shippi
Vietoria, Honghong,
13th
* June, 1846.
En Among other suggestions for improving the trade and promoting the prosperity of this Colony, I have received frequent applications from Members of the Mercantile. Community
anen from
on a
point which has appeared to me well deserving the consideration of Her Majesty's Government.
Whenever it may be deemed expedient to make some reduction. in the present high-
rate of a
of duty on Teas (perhaps higher on an____
average than the advalorem duty in the time - the rast India Company) a differential duty
of
in faon of teas shipped from Houghing would- have the most powerful effect in filling this harbour with British Shipping, and covering
Right Honorable,
W. R. Gladstone, M. P.,
te.
te.
the
te.