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present,.
a loser to a
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considerable extent, and it
is to be feared that he is
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be no
having recourse to illegitimate means to make good his loss. There can; be doubt that the late Farmer, during at least the last year of his contract, made
sumo
large by aiding smugglers, his modus operandi being to dispose of opium in a partially prepared state, and claim
it
xt as his
own, on the pretence of its bring prepared opium
when discoveries were made.
The Commissioner of the Chinese Imperial Maritime ) Customs for the Howloon
District was much embarrassed
by the Farmer's proceedings ; but I have had many conferences with him, and I think he is satisfied of the bona fides of this - Government in its endeavours to enforce
the Opium
Laws
of
Matt was put