No 22. There is an oction upon all
payable
provisions, whether
er
can
imported into or exported from a town or village & it is thence that the street police is supported. All Chinese evade it if they as they evade every other import, + possibly some of their boats bound to the Hongtong market may ở thị have been seized for mch evasions. The goot Contractor for The troops at Hongkong applied to me some time since to be relieved from paying the octron on bullocks to shipped at Canton, but on enquiry & found it a import, & one the Chinese authorities very light wo be unwilling to interfere
2.9
with, being
a municipal
multer, 20 Icich not
量
I did not press it..
The remarks of the acting
are
harbour master of Hongkong of course to be rect with res but I think his zeal in this matter
respect,
384
has led him slightly astray, & the deplorable state of affairs regarding food supplies does not & never dich exist. 73
represente
the owners of boats lose their all when they attempt to provisions to the Colony it is carry
aquestion whence come the supplies who feed the large
population of Fronghong ?
Thre
is
4
from the mainland
the market.
reply of China, & as the The Colony
is one of the best & cheapest existing, the facts do not support the inference & it w? be well if less exaggeration prevailed in official statements. 2:23. Unfortunately Honghong must be the base of operations for the Troppos cruisers, long
as the Chinese goot wooths after the collection of its revenue, unless We Colonial
goo?
can devise
some plan by wh. through
allowing agencies or some such
houses
has