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to London suggestions affecting
it's
Colony, with the privity of its Govern-
ment.
11.
The
suggestions
Remo
originally
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suggests as the next best thing for Chinese interest that there should be
a Chinese Consul here.
12.
In a similar
way
Sir Rutherford Alcock
appears to have been approached by Sir Frederick Bruce to meet partially the views of Prince Kung (2 December 1868), who "proposed that the Chinese Government "should appoint officials to reside at "Hongkong for the express purpose of
attending to the collection of duties in
the interest of the Custom Revenue!"
As this "could not be conceded in "British territories", and as Sir Rutherford in his reply to Prince Kung admits the existence of the evil complained of viz: smuggling from Hongkong, he
with a view to placing the intercourse "between Hongkong and the neighboring
coasts
on a
more
definite and regular footing
to protect the Chinese "Revenue without unreasonably obstructing
"ordinary traffic there, he suggests
The
appointment of a resident Chinese
Consul here, who is "to
regularize the "trading between the Mainland and "The Colony." When addressing myself
that it is "by such
means alone
any
satisfactory or permanent
"settlement of existing differences and