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Shanghai price has risen to 370 (i.e. per ball) because goods are very scarce. So the price in Hongkong may be expected to rise.
Please remember me to Wing Shek (arrested at 112 Des Voeux
Road Central).
19. Dete 6/8. I have got ready the 20 balls of Big Sugar ordered by Ah Ping's cable to be sent through Tai Kei. Unfort- unately Tai Kei's assistant had a quarrel and refused to take delivery. Afterwards I made arrangements to send through Ah
Fook, But he could not oblige.
Note- the words "Tai Tong" undoubtedly mean Indian opium but
exactly how this differs from that Indian Opium called
"Un Tong" or "round sugar" is not clear,
The word Tung translated "ball" means a "wooden barrel", but in some pepers seized at the same address the same word was used to mean tins containing 5 taels of prepared opium in the account books the word signifies an amount of opium @quivalent to that in a ball of Indian opium, and the price given is high, so that the probability is that it refers to
Indian opium.
Besides the above correspondence e similar style of
correspondence we was found between the Yuk shing Chong and
the Kwong ang firm of Chik Haz Kwong Chow Wan.
A specimen of an invoice is given below.
A. Tuk Sang Co. bought of Kwong Sang lst day of 4th moon
Kap year.
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$3,985
20 parcele "White Sugar" Taels 2,174.4 a
allowance, net Taels 2131.
at 22 equals Hongkong currency $3,266,40 Paid Military boat and coolie hire 40.00 Total Hongkong cury. 83,306.40
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