Board
of
Trade
E.L.F
" is likely to be formed at Hong Kong
" for the purpose of carrying "No 3993." "there
on Trade"
never has been
respectable in habitant on the Island
iw noon be proposes to constitute
ajet in
When the Chinese inhabitants.
whour there never was as amang respectable person, a petty Bouch) also at page 452. "#hatever trade
" will be exvied on here suust be
"brought by
adventitious cucurestanices
" and will last a cease accordice
n
se according
" accident. Hong Hong has nothing
"ic its position to concentrate. "Commerce. There does not appear.
" The slighest probability that under.
"any einenmstances Hong Hong
" ever become a place of Frade". It is
would
{
{
No 2871
et seq:
" indeed a delusion
304
ir delusion or a deception to talk
of Hong Kong becoming a Commercial "Emporium" and so forth, such
conflicting declamations unsuppated by facts are valueless.
Mr. Sanith here asserts, that the
opinne farmer and his partner
are
the only opulent Chinese settlers, and that they obtained thew wealth out Hong Kong
there were att
i
and in No 2872 that
opulent Chinese before
the opinn farmur. As all the
other Witnesses
appear
to have been
under the impression that Acquis
was the sprum Farmer, t
may reasonably be presumed such was
indeed
also Mr Smiths.
impression.
Flere
thussoe