19
287
18
Imports
in Native vessels at 150,000 piculs, while the Harbour Master reports the exports in square rigged vessels as follows
To India...
New South Wales.
Shanghai
Junks.
9,427 mercantile Piculs.
51,056.
15,680.
93,522.
Piculs 160,267, or
I have consulted many of the mercantile gentlemen of the Colony as to the state of the Native trade, as well as others who are considered to have the means of being acquainted with it, and who have moreover paid attention to the subject, and by all I have been assured that the trade is gradually extending; from none have I heard complaints of the Native traders being molested in any way.
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The only suggestion that has been made to me for its further extension, is the abolition of the Opium farm, or rather that part of it by which persons are interdicted from dealing in Opium, in quantities less than one chest without a license.
This subject was brought to Your Lordship's notice in my Despatch No. 18 of the 14th ultimo.
I beg to annex the remarks of Dr. Gutzlaff on the Chinese trade of the Colony for the year 1848.
The fixed Revenue derivable from Crown Lands on the 31st December, 1848 stands thus
Lands leased by Mercantile Firms.
" by Individuals.
" by Chinese.
£4742.12.5½
4562.5.7¼
1802.19.9¼
£11,107.17.11
The advantage of general Police