complamed of the action of a cruiser
to the
Hongkong government, the petitioner should be
sent to the Consul at Canton, at whose instance
the Hoppe would depute
aw
Officer to investigate
the case, appeal being reserved to the Consul
and a
iniquery
Competent Chinese Officer, should the first
4thly that
not prove satisfactory :
while omvoron to enter small things carried
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as
the
of the Cruisers. Without this indeed,
master now stands, these Customs Houses could
do little to secure the revenue
they collect. -
I informed Per
My
own idea had been as
Brooke Robertson before I left China in 1876,
that the Chinese Government, ( whose right to do what they
I have at the same
are now
doing
lime never disputed), should be wiged to
substitute for the system which so
considered a venial offence,
tur a
a Junk
with a
full cargo, night
be
Colony,
a
brauch
of
serious
evas tono
of
the the Foreign Inspectorate of
annoys
Office
upion
the
Lastly
of
by
am
arrangement with
duty would be severely punished, the Junk mader
being competent to denounce the givety:.
that a pink tariff should be exhibited at the
three stations near
Hongkong
and elsewhere.
I had expressed an
opmon that Lui Brooke
of a I found
Robertson's rules were at least deserving
any
trial but on arrival in Hongkong, that they had not received the approval of Mr. Pope Hennessy; his mam objection being if I have understood it aright, that they neither
remove the obnoxions Custom Houses, nou
sufficially
obnoxions,
modify the achon, held to be
equally
Customs, which might place an
Chinese side of the harbour, on the land west
British Cowloon', and,
the Colomat Government, might collect the revenne
due to China on all junk cargoes leaving the
The inspection and
-certification of Junks being conducted runder Condition
Colony.
agreed to by the Colonial Government; it would scarcely be possible that misunderstandings between it and the Canton Authorines of the Rind now complamed
of should recur. We might also be sure that no
duty would be levied as at present i
excevo
of
tolistove