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from transactions at Macao, and in comparison with the value of the legitimate trade conducted and controlled

from Hongkong as the great Emporium

of the South, is little than 1 to 50. Notwithstanding

Sir Rutherford Alcock ignoring

the 50 details

on the Island makes all his deductions

from it, so that the probability is just 50

against the correctness of his conclusions

as to the elements of this Colony's importance.

15.

an impression

any case so inferior

as would be created by publishing

here Sir Rutherford Alcock's observations

that I thought it better to adopt

an intermediate Course

of referring them to

the Unofficial Members of Council, who

at this moment

may be regarded

Vide Gov to Secy of State No 553, 6 Aug 1865

Rpts 23 to 28.

10442/68.

+

Enclosure No 2.

Copy: Bay to sbon: W.

Keswick. 27 June 1869.

9th January, 1869

representing

in the widest and most

cosmopolitan sense the general interests

of Foreign

commerce with China whether here or at any of the Treaty Ports or

elsewhere

16. I now submit the letter in which

I invited their attention to the subject

which they referred to

me

I also

Enclose No 3

enclose the Memo in which those

Gentlemen, representatives of the well known houses of Jardine Matheson & Co., Gibb

Livingstone & Co., and Smith Archer & Co.,

have communicated their unanimous opinions, and looking to the magnitude of the Commercial transactions which they individually control, and their

own

vast personal experience in the China trade

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12 from transactions at Macao, and in comparison with the value of the legitimate trade conducted and controlled from Hongkong as the great Emporium of the South, is little than 1 to 50. Notwithstanding Sir Rutherford Alcock ignoring the 50 details on the Island makes all his deductions from it, so that the probability is just 50 against the correctness of his conclusions as to the elements of this Colony's importance. 15. an impression any case so inferior as would be created by publishing here Sir Rutherford Alcock's observations that I thought it better to adopt an intermediate Course of referring them to the Unofficial Members of Council, who at this moment may be regarded Vide Gov to Secy of State No 553, 6 Aug 1865 Rpts 23 to 28. 10442/68. + Enclosure No 2. Copy: Bay to sbon: W. Keswick. 27 June 1869. 9th January, 1869 representing in the widest and most cosmopolitan sense the general interests of Foreign commerce with China whether here or at any of the Treaty Ports or elsewhere 16. I now submit the letter in which I invited their attention to the subject which they referred to me I also Enclose No 3 enclose the Memo in which those Gentlemen, representatives of the well known houses of Jardine Matheson & Co., Gibb Livingstone & Co., and Smith Archer & Co., have communicated their unanimous opinions, and looking to the magnitude of the Commercial transactions which they individually control, and their own vast personal experience in the China trade
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from transactions at Marxo, and in comparison with the value of the legitimate trade conducted and controlled

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from Hongkong as the

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quat Emporium

1

of the South, is life than 1 to 50. Nunthelefp

Sir Rutherford Alcock ignoring

the 50 divells

on the I and makes all his deductions

from it, so that the probability is just 50

against the conectness of his conclusions

to t

as to the elements of this Colony's importance.

15.

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impresion

any

case so infuriono

aw

would be created by publishing

here Sir Rutherford Alwack's observations

that I thought it better to adopt

fintermediate Course

the

of referring them to

the Unofficial Members of Council, who

at this moment

may be regarded

Cus

Vide Gov to Seey of State No 553.6 Any 165

Rits 23 to 28.

10442/68.

+

Enclosure No 2.

bok: bay to sbon: W.

Keswich. 27 Juny 1869..

9th January, 1869

representing

in the widest and most

cosmopolitan sense the general interests

of Foreign

13 11

commerce with China whether here or at any of the Treaty Ports or

elsewhere

16. I now ticnomit the letter in which

I invited their attention to the subject

which tom Space referred to

me

I also

Encloone Nc3 enclose the Meme in which those

Gentlemen, representatives of the well known houses of Jardine Matheson the, Gibb

H, Livingstone Hor, and Smith Archer H6:,

have communicated their unanimous opinions, and looking to the magnitude. of the Commercial transactions which they individually control, and their

own

vast personal experience in the bhina

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