This
trade and the
5 frontier occupation of Dongking by France, again bring to the frout the question of representing to China the insportance of no longer hesitating to open to foreign enterprise the navigable waters of Chica gewrally, but more especially the rivers of the Southern provins
(J.
On the 3.2 Jely of last year the chamber addressed the late Sir Hurry Parkes, 413. M's Minister = 4 Plexipolectivory at Peking
on this subject, when the Fourier Convention
was announced, and the Committee
enclose a
copy of the letter, as it bears
direetly on the Freeety
Consideration:
now under
The concluding portion of
Article
1095.
Article VI, touching
the
coasting
trade between China and Armam,
is
- of special importance to this Colony, the shipping interests
which
are po
ofer
· great, ceud H. cll's . Government should watch with
jealous
care that the Colony is no
less favourably pland than it always has been in regard to Coast traffic
and intercourse with
the territories now under Fre
protestion
I have so
(Signed) 17. Keswick
Chairmai
CAR....
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