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of Comme
Consideration.
T
or not
and I
timet that Your Excellency will
Admir
beheve
Agent
nothing
me
to be a clunted
but a
by
desire to serve
interest of the
Colonists, and other British
Traders in
I may
observations
Du
any submit to you.
a recent Article I noticed that
one of the Colonial Journals
advocated
scheme propounded
acceptance of. by
a
Mr Thomas
Dick, Commissioner of Customs
on the collection should be
paid
do
over to the Ca
Colony.
I
arrange.
not think this
-ment
likely to find favor with
the Central Government here,
met soone
of it.
cy
hich
later be informed
& appears
speaking of course
Correction,
~Cession
to
me
under
that
if
the
Com
of a
af
Customs Station
Hong Kong secure, as
Imagine
it must, the suspension of the Chinese Cruiser scheme, it
will be well
with
the Colony's
white to purchase its suspension
at the price. I will add that
at Shanghai,
A
very
able man,
the
was
y
the Colony do
not object-
Concer
rxion of
of a
Customs Station
to
Th
concession of the Kind
one of the conditions of which
that, in return for
at Hong Kong, a percentage
Un
indicated