Hong Kong; on the contrary, I am confident that the result if honestly carried out can hardly fail to benefit the Colony,
Bitter tea opium at Macao has been imported by:
Steamer from Hong Kong, of course free of duty, and from Macao
Junks &
Foreign
it is sent in
various parts of the Coast. If smuggling from Macao be made impossible such shipments
will
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will be made direct from
Amoy or Hong Kong. This will to a certain extent benefit the
Trade. Native Junk trade Cooling. But in the case of opium intended for the Treaty Ports or their transit, foreign vessels will be more extensively employed, as the advantages which junks formerly possessed & import duty open at about half the rate payable by Foreign Vessels is now abolished.