CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 405

Opence agst our territorial jurisdiction by The intrusion of Chinese Cruisers into the waters of the Colony is made less likely to happen. -

There will

be it seems to me no excuse fo- a Chinese cruiser to approach the Colony at all as the South can be watched at even a greater distance Than the ten mile radius which the Com demanded..

That the arrangement will saliify those who have heretofore benefited by an viregular trade,- for the irregularity of which at the same time they were not responsible- I do not for an instant suppose. They

we however be still less content with the measure who. I on? be

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glad to see adoptect & without adoption of wh. I do not expect to see Revenue wh is really

really as much a Revenue

if Trongthong

on

Foreign Trace as

were a Consular Pont collected so as to comeme a full measure of advantage to the Foreign Tracher with a minimum of restriction on the part of the

Chinese

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The

Chinese Gout: The estabent of a exanch of Customs Inspectorate at Songthong.

I proposed consideration of this measure, as your records will show you, during your alsence in England three years

ago.

The bare ous

spicion that ouch things could be thought of excited much indignation. among the Hongthong

munity

& the goot itself was more than advene. I allow that there are fifty arguments to be wryech agst it, but they are mos

in

mostly

my judgment on the ride of imaginary rather than of

real interests.

Every Power is naturally jealous of its territorial jurisdiction

•Hongkong, being a British Colony, it we be technically

&

a great concession on our

suffer the institution. B

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Collectorate within our limits. But.

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