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lots
os
parties who had taken
on
random speenlation before stated, and had
neither entered
themselves
non
on
the same
sold them
to others, threw them up
rather than pay any
rent.
The largest holder was a person of the name
of Vesey,
a speculator in buildings and
capital,
land, without
any
and who after bearming hopelessly involved quitted the Colony - Mass = Jardine Matheson the who
by far the w
Lots
are
to the
largest owners of improved
in Hongkong, present amount of £ 674
rental per annum,
annum, therew
up foun of their unimproved
224
Tots, and as they at least
popeped the means) Sinsisted
their paying
on
all arrears.
to the date of resignation._ in their instance,
I
succeeded
but there
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still the doubt
whether, under the terms of the Lease, I might not have been obliged to be satisfied
with the
mere
re-entry
on the
untouched and unimproved
Lots. Many
Many of the other
parties, as already observed,
speculators who never
were
popeped the means of converting
the lots to their
own use, and
who, having been unable to dispose of them at a profit, threw them up when called
for Rent - With reference
on
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