with the Acting Commissioner of Customs Me: Bowra, desining him to forward
for the
a Statement of the case
Ixperintendent's information, and he
is now in receipt of a reply as follows :
In reply to your despatch of yesterday, respecting the Him to. Gein passage boot, I have to observe that native junks having long been.. prohibited by proclamation of om
Carrying Opium among their cargo, and the junk in question having been reported by
infermer
as about to
Smuggle a quantity of Opium, revenue-Stanser Hai-
Thing
the
ordered to pursue and seize her,
on
the grounds of her conveying. Opium
"
to the interior
by the
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way of Hoisting
in controvention of the published: prohibition. The Espot where the junk
Was
seized was not within the writer's
of Hong Hong. Deforwards for your
Copy in English and
the
information a Copy Chiness of the report made by Captain of the Hai - Ching, together with a Chort of the locality.
On receipt of the above, with its encloswas, the Superintendent
has to communicate them to the honourable Consul, with wishes for his constant prosperity.
Enclosed are the report by
the Captain of the Har-Ching, together with a.
Copy in English