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give he invariably makes an excuse of some sort & the "fear of involving their connections with the native authorities
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is the
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The
general one & accepted without: question by foreigners. fact is the junk carrying Grace between Hongkong Canton is a monopoly in the hands of a very powerful guild scrupulously
who
pay
their duties
&
to the native customs & are
Therefore never interfered with. It is the junks trading with Formosa & the Ports North & West of Stongthong that evade the Customs dues & run for the Hongkong waters where they quietly wait until slip out, or more generally
They
Transfer their
cargoes
can
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vessels. This fact is perfectly
well known. The trade in native produce at Songthong
в
is
very large: the portion that has arrived from Canton City
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hai
paid export dues, but the remaindy from the Court in nine cases out
of ten has not paid one cast.. 72 was this
evasion of the Tompt ones wh. first zur opium & afterwards
glaring
for native
caused the establint
produce of duty stations
on the mainland in the
trouble
neighbourhood of Tringkong & a large number of guard brats & steamers who so a
sovely The mercantile mind of the Colony, for they see in
nothing but a sinister attempt. to ruin its trade,
it being
it
immaterial, of course, whether or not that trace is legitimate,
the argument being that it
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The Colony
is not the business
to look after the duties of the Chinese
goot, but its business
to take care that the Chinese