may
be the more easily enabled to
furnish
any
suggestions
which me
I may
it
Shew it will be
I should
necessary
briefly
review
the past & present financial state
of
the Colony
An
of
It would appear from
examination of
all the data bearing
that
on the subject during the first
fourteen years of
its existence
as a
Colony, Hong Kong cost the Imperial
Exchequer no
less
a sum than £273,000
for its Civil Establishment
exclusive sum spent during
on account of
that period of
Military
& Naval
Protection of the Colony.
This
very
large expense,
to the Mother Country.