CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844 — Page 70

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which they fecukly admit is the only

will, ever,

possess. The

cr.c

shore

hade Hong Kong Opium belonging to the two principal_ firnet is not however lodged. it is kept in receiving

receiving chips the Momanje. Demanje belonging to

Jardine Matheson H, and the John

to Dents. Even

Barry" belonging

the

money

used by those finus

is not entrusted :

Kett

the

tice or four

olore but is

receiving.

ships, and the

others partially engaged

in the pins trade car

lusuuss

ttt

sarried

0 it

ezt

carry

the Tea

MongKing;

disticietly

lade is warrie

Canton by members of the firms

resident there. Ixcepting.

the.

at.

the sit

fount engaged

ed in the opium trade.

the other six houses

are small, and

aut puncipally agouts for suaumfactines

te

in

Great Britain. The expenses

of

of establislements, the high rate

interest on

money

aud

the

want

گره

trade will it is said-probably me long

compel the removal or leaking up of several of the

the small houses

There is

have

praccely a firme in the island but - would, Inndustand, be glad to get back half the money they expended in the Colony, and retit from the place . A post of talluamation seems to have seized to anawasi strose who build housed here: They

thought

that.

Hong Kong would rapidly out sival Singapore, and become the Tyre, or Our thage, of the

Eastern hemisphere. Three

years

residence a

and the

experience

thouse

denied - trave

terially

sobered

their views.

Unfortunately the

Opvemment of the Clony fostered - the delusion respecting the colony.

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