1841-1886
59
RECEIVED
AUG
Board of Trade
38
Remarks upon the Native Trade
of Hong Kong.
from 14th April 1844 16th April 1865.
Captain Elliot, when taking possession
of this Island, anticipated that the commerce formerly carried on at Lintin, Kapsuymoon and Macao would be concentrated under the British flag, at this spacious
harbour. The
even ... anticipated great
additions from Canton itself and the various ports to the Northward. This was natural under the supposition, that the trading connexions with this Country, after all the attempts to improve them, would revert to the same exclusive system as before, and that as long as Chinese
existing
wholesale no alterations could be expected. A favourable commercial policy on
the