The Local government to meet the convenience of parties are granting facilities for the sale and purchase of building properties between parties interested.
The persuasion of the Council being that there being no legal impediment in the way and it being as a matter of principle important that no obstacle should be put in the way of the natural course of trade for prices.
A suggestion be adopted that premises not in demand around the neighbourhood to sell and those ready to buy them will suffer serious injustice.
It further plunders for Hongkong a political evil that the encouragement given to Chinese speculation by the present state of Eastern Trade and the wise liberality of the Executive Council has not as yet induced the rich Chinese Merchant to add to the society of the place.
They have their warehouses in Victoria but their homes in Canton.
This should not be; the man is apt, and the time is favourable for experiment. So that have the gratification of Lord Canning leaning in the course of time that the new laws have gathered together these peculiar natives, has added to their wives and families.
That permits be freely granted for native plantations along any part of Queen's Road.
Mr. Kennedy then takes his pen and writes to Lord Canning that the Local government has already granted the facilities faster than fears that the Europeans having concessions.
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