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CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

Despatch N30 of 1857.

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School's receiving govemment Report on the from Chinese.

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5th April, 1857-

S 6241/51

Hetoria Hongkong, 283

27th January, 1851-

Memorandum on the Junt Trade in the harbour of Victoria from 14 March to 31th

December, 1850-

A memorandum furnished in Exbruary 1850 explained the difficulty of supplying extensive or accurate data regarding the trade of this Colony, and the defectiveness of the means of obtaining information upon that head-

From the return daily made up by a native, in the employ of the Chinese Secretary's Office, it appears that there anchored in Victoria harbour during the above period 467 junks loading with stone from the Colonial quarries, an slight advance upon the stone junks of 1049, which amounted to but 45-6.

In the salt trade there is a

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