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There is no officer in Honghong who has to my knowledge,
ever
made a Communication lo_
received a Communication
unication from,
Any
Chinese authority
on
any
Sufor
Gubject connected with the s
Commerce
of
the Colony; imm
; immense
as is that commerce, and
emancipated wholly from fiscal interference of any Gort . The hade of Hong Kong feed from all Custom House interference, has grown to gigantic proportions 800,000 Tons of British and foreign shipping having entered
the harbour in the
Year 1856,
122
only be
white of Chinese Junks from every quarter the numbers can Approximatively eshimoted. They Clear out without molestation,
from
all the ports of China, and are Admitted into all the ports without hindrance or difficulty. Wholern have been the original
May
intentions or opinions of the framers
the Treaties with China as to
of the
"the position Hongkong was to occupy it has become ;
e from the -force app incritable and incontrollers Circumstances, one of the most important Commercial Déposs of the Oriental world.