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direct commerce from the Archipelago
gato
the various northern Ports; and we have
no reason to believe that
in future this:
therefore Hong Kong will became an entrepot for this traffic. Better founded
respecting
are our
hope...
a more extensive commerce
with Canton, for from first to last a number of large cargo-boats have been running between this and the metropolis.
With
very
rare
exceptions, there were
supplied the immediate necessaries for the consumption at Victoria, building materials as well.
Provisions, and goods of shopkeepers. The reiterated inquiries, why the Merchants did not send down articles for the European market, have invariably been answered that it would not pay, and that they could not obtain a ready sale here, if they did so
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62
Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
direct commerce from the Archipelago
gato
the various northern Ports; and we have
no reason to believe that
in future this:
therefore Hongthong will became in entrepot for this traffic. Better founded
respecting
are nur
hope...
a more extensive commerci
with Canton, for from first to lasts a number of large cargo-boats have been running between this and the metropolis._
With
very
pare
exceptions, there weeds
: supplied the immidiate necessaries for the consumption at Victoria, building.
Materials as well.
!
ths.
:provisions, and goods of shopkeepers. The reiterated inquiries, why the Merchants did not send down articles for the European market, have invariably been answered that it would not pay, and that they could not obtain a revady cale here, if they did so
Intelligent
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