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waters) in protection of its revenue; admitted that its present method of exercising its right is prejudicial to the Junk Trade of the Colony, The Colony or nothing to assist the Chinese Goot to protect its revenne in some other fashion? This is a question

you ex

not new either to

myself. I shall inggest

answer

to it in the

Desp.

I am

following

Cod) 7. F. Wade.

010-11

Gir

Fo

Trroty

Peking

July 6.1874

يسم

400

I was about to contime my my minst. when

desp. V? // of the 4

& rec?

your desps DP 407 41 of The 20th net. The latter Officially conforms what I had already seen noticed in the Newspapers viz : The decision of the Colonial Gout to refer the Report of the Hongkong Cont on the funk Trance to the Set of State.-

Yr Desp N: 40 reports the acquiescence of the Provincial goot of Canton in an arrangement wh., if Zaithfully acthered to, ph?.

oo much to diminish the

interference of wh. The Colonial Chamber of Commerce

much

complains, while the direct

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