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of Comme

Consideration.

T

or not

and I

timet that Your Excellency will

Admir

beheve

Agent

nothing

me

to be a clunted

but a

by

desire to serve

interest of the

Colonists, and other British

Traders in

I may

observations

Du

any submit to you.

a recent Article I noticed that

one of the Colonial Journals

advocated

scheme propounded

acceptance of. by

a

Mr Thomas

Dick, Commissioner of Customs

on the collection should be

paid

do

over to the Ca

Colony.

I

arrange.

not think this

-ment

likely to find favor with

the Central Government here,

met soone

of it.

cy

hich

later be informed

& appears

speaking of course

Correction,

~Cession

to

me

under

that

if

the

Com

of a

af

Customs Station

Hong Kong secure, as

Imagine

it must, the suspension of the Chinese Cruiser scheme, it

will be well

with

the Colony's

white to purchase its suspension

at the price. I will add that

at Shanghai,

A

very

able man,

the

was

y

the Colony do

not object-

Concer

rxion of

of a

Customs Station

to

Th

concession of the Kind

one of the conditions of which

that, in return for

at Hong Kong, a percentage

Un

indicated