CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876 — Page 281

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applicable to Junks trading

to Manila, Saigon and the Straits settlements as foreign

Parts. Hongkong is therefore

not

an

Exception

I have heretofore written

to Her Majesty's Minister in

China very fully on this subject giving the bearings of the case so far as I

could arrive at them, and

therefore it is unnecessary

for me to remark upon.

Webster's despatch further

to say

I repeat to your

Lordship, that there is not a

strong case to go

for the solution of the only

question appears to me to rest

on one of

the three measures

I have above submitted,

I may add that at a late interview I brought to

the Viceroy

the notice

of this question of levying duties

on

Junks according to the English Tariff, and, as

I frequently do in complicated

cases,

I noted

on a paper handed to

him the matter which

I wished to discuss,


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applicable to Junks trading to Manila, Saigon and the Straits settlements as foreign Parts. Hongkong is therefore not an Exception I have heretofore written to Her Majesty's Minister in China very fully on this subject giving the bearings of the case so far as I could arrive at them, and therefore it is unnecessary for me to remark upon. Webster's despatch further to say I repeat to your Lordship, that there is not a strong case to go for the solution of the only question appears to me to rest on one of the three measures I have above submitted, I may add that at a late interview I brought to the Viceroy the notice of this question of levying duties on Junks according to the English Tariff, and, as I frequently do in complicated cases, I noted on a paper handed to him the matter which I wished to discuss, Page 276 ... Copy
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applicable to Junks trading

to manila, Saigon and the Straits settlements as foreign

Parts. Hongkong is therefore

not

aw

Exception

I have heretofore written

to ver majesty's minister in

Chuia very fully on this subject giving the bearings the case so far as I

ов

Could arrive at them, and

therefore it is unnecessary

for me to remark upon.

Werberts despatch further

to say

itian repeat to your

mu

Iliau

I have dove,

more

276

Lordship, that there is not a

on and

the

до very strong case to go

solution of the only

itiat

question appears to me to rest

one of

the three measury

I have above submitted,

a

I may add itial at late interveiw I brought to

the Viceroy

the notice

ов

this question of levying duties

on

jurites according to the English Tariff, and, as

I frequently do in complicated

cases,

note

on

him a

handed him

the matter which

I wished to discuss,

w

Sirds hip

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