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Comments
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28.11
1.89
enclosed cette from
Messrs. Butterfield & swire.
The Governor prefers to leave this
expecti big
traffic unchallenged, that the trade
will develop to such an extent that it can
be converted that the river is virtually open and
therefore that British steamer should no
There is of course.
is, '
longer
an obvious
he does not refer, the at
Be excluded.
danger
which
a
comsiderable
it
created,
may
be difficult to
vested interest will be
dislodge. On the other hand, the rates
chazed by those
540
handle the trade
are exorbitant
When com
•pared with it one
ordinely charged by the steamships and
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it
May
well be that,
once
trade between
Home Home
channels
and Canton by the present
his reached considerable proportions,
there will be an
in favour of
overwhelming bunsure o
the restoration of Cess
burdensome methods of transport.
conf.
2 Copy to Fo Lobserving
as above, and
Saying that Sofs is in clined to agree that it
is not duswäble of fresent to
un alle
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