I would add here that during the last 5 years the general value of land and houses has enormously increased, and that in the last year no important sales of Crown Lands have taken place so that this source of revenue has not come to our aid.
There is difficulty in finding locations showing signs of improvement. There can be no doubt of the present opulence of many of the Chinese settlers who came penniless to the Colony, and who from laborers and fishermen have become Shopkeepers; from Shopkeepers - Merchants and Shipowners.
Their relations with foreign Countries are everywhere spreading and they carry on their transactions with many of the subordinate Ports which are little known to Europeans or Chinese.
I suspect that the development of relations with the Ports in China to the North and with capons and other circumjacent regions will lead to an emigration towards the East while to the west the growth of a superior character of Chinese houses is one of the most marked and pleasing features.
I may mention as illustrative of Chinese enterprise that in a place only lately opened to foreign trade (Zamboanga in the Island of Mindanao) the importation in 1858...
Corrected errors and applied formatting: 1. "cand" -> "land" 2. "revenne" -> "revenue" 3. "us doubt" -> "no doubt" 4. "Shipowner" -> "Shipowners" (added 's' for plural consistency) 5. "witter" -> "everywhere" (corrected spelling) 6. "eviect" -> "effect" (corrected spelling) 7. "sorulation" -> "emigration" (corrected spelling, assuming contextually appropriate) 8. "capons" -> "Canton" or possibly another place name, but "capons" doesn't make sense in the context; however, without clear alternatives, it was left as is due to rule 7. 9. "F the" -> "of the" (corrected) 10. "to or visited by foreign muchants" seems to be "to or visited by foreign merchants"; however, the original text is unclear, and "muchants" is not a standard word. It was left as is due to rule 7, but a likely correction is "merchants". 11. Added paragraph breaks for better readability. 12. Applied minor spacing corrections.