the farms are let for
years
hidden
for
three
to the highest
365
a total
Hoything In 1889 in Hongtong out of a J# 1.978. 274 978.274.
the
revenue
Opicuon accounted for 428 400
fourth
or between one
and one
fifth
the opium licenses are formed in Horyblong as elsewhere. An attempt was made by i government to take the licensing into their Own hands but it proved unsuccessful and they had to revert to the farming system The farming system has been found to lead to urtdue speculation on the part
render for of the native firms who tender the results of which are sometimes, as lately
the coxchante
in the case ŏ the Straits Settlemente & Native States very disastions, but theblition No satisfactory means of doing without it have yet been devised." British North Borned & the Colonial office
Shanghai of
are not under
Mr. Mark Stewart is seertally with interested
\lty.
вы
in New Jo-called "Mural
"side of the quation. The