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the now
materinb
and thivio
open the manufacture of
prepared opaim to public come
-petition, latting
care
moh
to fix the duty so
to drive the
high
Lade away,
ad
It is not at all improbable
that if thrown open the Revenue
the hiuste were thris
of Hongkong prodigionsly, while it is
would increase
certain that the
amount
which it might fairly expect to derive from this source longer be difficult
would no
to extimate. Reverting to the main question of Mr Hart's scheme. I venture
to express
my
my opinion that the present
opportunity should
be lost
not
of securing for Hong Kong the good will and cooperation not only of the Foreign Inspectorate, but of the Foreign Office which the Co
Colony
to enjoy.
has long ceased British Ministers
and Deplomatic Officers in
China have not
ensed
for
years
a
to denounce the place
next of pirater
smugglers, and
at
B
and
"Thorn
"in their side!" Mr Hart
uses the very expression yet is evident that his
balancing
mind is
between