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The Honourable Mr. P. H. May, C.M.G.,
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We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st ultimo, in which you are directed to inform ug that Hie Excellency the Governor has received a deepatch from Hie Najesty's Minister at Peking to the effect that he regards it as doubtful that the Regulatione, as they stand at present, can be regarded as establishing a monopoly; that they appear to do little more than reproduce the rulee passed for the enforce- ment of the Opium Edict of September 20th 1906 and that he has accordingly instructed His Majesty'e Consul General at Canton that, while the working of the eyetem would doubtless require to be carefully watched, it is inadvisable to take further action pending reference to His Majesty's Government.
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We have in our letter to Mr. Harry H. Fox, H.B.M's Consul- General at Canton of the 23rd September laɛt (copy of which was forwarded to you in our letter of the 25th September and copy of which is hereunto annexed) ao fully dealt with the pernicious effect that those Regulations will have, if brought into force, upon the Raw Opium trade, that no useful object would be gained by recapitulating them save to again contend that it must be obvious that if analysed in detail to a logical conclusion, the Regulations sought to be enforced in the Two Kwongs, and in particular the Regulation that "after the ascertaiment and re- "gistration of the number of opium shops in the Province of the "Two Kwonge now in existence no new opium shops doing business "in the buying and selling of raw and prepared opium will be "allowed to be established"; all tend to the idea that the primary intention is the creation of a monopoly amongst a
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