7.
448
Long
was in
constant and necessary communication with the officials directing
the levy, who found he's local knowledg exceedingly useful to them. Almost immediately after the levy had been instituted Her Majesty's Consul was astonished to see in the Hongtong
a statement to the effect journals
تم میسم
the
That
branch office for the levy of Opium laws (which undertaking had
been wohemently
denounced en
the
Colony generally hart been actually opened in longthing.
it
"Hong Hong, and simullimusty,
reported by the Caption of one of the whinesa ganboals that a Europian, named James Hobster, recently dismissed from the Police
- DE ALEH.
force of Hongtong, had been stationed.
at the tax Office outside the Eye pass, for the purpose of searching, junks
They prassed. Her Arajesty's Sound who had time after time warned the therey against coming ints collision. with the Hongtong Authorities, sont
instantly to see the Viceroy and to tell him, that grounds for very
ane
serious complaint had been
by
" given.
the above detailed measures, and
that the office opened in Hengthong.
in direct contravention
of
the
understanding between Her Majesty's Consul and himself, must be immediately cloved and all connected with it dismissed.
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