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expeditions during 1865 and 1866, ..
was nominated by the Viceroy
and was
to his present post in consequence of the approbation expressed of his
conduct
on
several
occasions by ..
Her Majesty's Consul. He is a
native
of
this
province,
and has
many connections (as has latterly been ascertained) among the trading classes in Hang Hang, which render him quite familiar with everything that goes
in the Colony : This, indeed, is the
case with a
large number of the Cantonese Military Mandarins, many of whom, like Fring, have shops or shares in Shops and other business
in the Colony. When the proposal
for the establishment of Opium-tax
Stations
at Hong Kong and
Macao was
first
mooted by the
Viceroy, Her Majesty's Consul on being consulted in the matter
expressed the wish, as a
necessary preliminary, to know the precise
points at which it was desired to establish these offices, with a view to guarding against any infringement of the territorial rights of Hong Kong, Colonel Ping,
hereupon directed by the Viceroy to forward a map of the East line which constituted the limits of his Military command, and to name