19469/231

6849/84 & draft thereon

14786/84 (without enclosure) & draft thereon

21858/84

& draft thereon

1873/845

& draft thereon

14670/91

off

& two drafts thereon

X

as this

is already

in print

Are Breed

M. danfeld

These papers before

435

returned from printer

were not got to take

tarted this month, & I have not been able to circulate them until today.

In despatches to Straits and 1891, Lord Knutsford question of modifying

not at pp. 33,4 of His stay Proof herewith Hongkong

569/9,-2 (with all inclosures) & to

an [not the final] apparent draft, there

3931/92

& two drafts thereon

5368/93 (& all Enclosures) 5673/93 (omitting par. 2) an

86206/93

it thing

A,

it may

necessary

[when pa

4.72

laid

and and it's clone Part o

Print Reaborn. Hl. 7. 27 April

the

Mr Buxton

I think that this is a justifiable

case for printing. We hardly make any

Calls

printing department in

Respect of the Eastern Colonies, but this

is one of the few questions which are

A

likely to find us short of a Parliamentary

kind. Proud no M. Johnson purposes??

Th 27.4.43

melnder pp. 64,5 of harbour "Proof

ara

1948/10

The history of

Experiment.

In this system

figuren

in the earlier cases. and herein Printed

(44.1-19)

Je 4.14

(-6562), & later again (H.C.141-1893) p. 349 there is.

raised the

the Farming system - with a view to diminishing the evils of the opium traffic (i.e. of reducing the amount of opium consumed in those

th. April 1892 of opium consumed in

In his despatches of

Lord Knutsford went further on this subject, specifically making

suggestions

(1) Should the Farming

monopoly in be

Home suggestions

(1) Should the Farming

abolished, and a system of Licence substituted

particularly

the view of heightening the price of prepared opium & so

the consumption limiting

(2) Should Opium divans, i.e. shops licensed for selling

on the premises

abolished

(as in India) a materially reduced

in number.

these

Sin C. Smith's answer to these suggestions is contained at pp.668-9 and Sir W. Robinson's at pp. 89-95, and these despatches have now to be answered.

They both advocate the maintenance

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