Governor. No.
Colenson 243
Date.
1893
21 Dec.
Last previous Paper.
Gov
569
Ausd 2.5:20 Reb
03-92
Subsequent Paper.
628/94
HongKong
No. 1603
(Subject.)
RECO
C.0.
1603
DESPATCH.
10
26.94
Opium Ordinance 1891.
Sends petition from the Hongkong & Macao Steamboat Co. and the China Navigation Co. praying for its amendment in certain respects.
Sends report of Attorney General in which he concurs & copy of letters exchanged in correspondence.
(Minutes.)
M. Wingfield
Ord. 21 of 1891 (see 569/21-2) was passed with the object of checking opium smuggling into China, which was supposed to be done with the connivance of the Opium Farmer.
The Opium Farmer has usually been too clever for the government. The difficulty was got over by the Supreme Court deciding that the Magistrate had no power to forfeit the opium seized on board the Canton steamer merely on the ground that its...