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H.B.M. CONSULATE,
AMOY,
Feb 20 96
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19th October 1890.
Referring to your letter of the 12th October,
1890, I have the honour to forward for transmission
to the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce 19 iron pans
manufactured in this district, and exported mostly
to British Colonies.
I have marked on each pan the price (retail)
here, and the port to which it is exported.
You will notice none of the pans are marked
as being exported to Hongkong.
The reason of this is that only a few iron
pans are exported from Amoy to Hongkong, because
there are only a few Amoy men in that Colony.
The natives of Kuang Tung have obtained the
monopoly of the labour market at Hongkong, and I am
E. H. Fraser Esq.,
H.B.M. Acting Consul
Canton.
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