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enforcing the penal clauses of Itinance 1.6571866 against the Cawleys and Criminal class uns had been in the habit of clearing from Houghtons after night. fall with contraband Cargoes of Grimm and Saltsetre for the
Mainland.
2.
Curtain Kornsett the
Harbour Master, and Mr Cecil C. Smith the Registrar General, had previously excreped the Osinion, in their official reports to Sir Arthur Kennedy, that the interference of the Chinese Revenue Cruisers was destroying
the Junk trake of the Colony, and they assured me that if I began
to
put
the penal clauses of
Ordinance 1.6 of 1855 in force
the Junk trade would cirionely decline still further.
3.
I have however the
extracting
satisfaction of now for your Ordadie's information
the following figures from the Harbour Master's Returns us to the 31st of December 1877 from which it is clear that the legitimate Junk trade of the Colony has been steadily increasing whilst I have been putting