CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12] — Page 151

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No complaints respecting Opium smuggling from Hongkong to China have been made since the date of the Petition I had the honour of transmitting to Your Lordship in my dispatch No. 39 of the 21st of June.

6.

The Acting Captain Superintendent of Police is of opinion that the Opium smuggling junks, which of late years had caused so much correspondence respecting the "blockade of Hongkong" made the village of Yaumatee in British Kowloon the chief base of their operations.

In a report on another subject from the Harbour Master, dated 19th September 1874, he incidentally refers to the fact that, until the month of May this year, several junks at Yaumatee were in the habit of leaving Hongkong Harbour without reporting their departure as required by Ordinance 6 of 1866. Mr Thomsett says:-

"Until May several junks anchored at and left the place (Yaumatee) without reporting at all; now all native craft are subject to the same supervision as obtains...

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51 No complaints respecting Opium smuggling from Hongkong to China have been made since the date of the Petition I had the honour of transmitting to Your Lordship in my dispatch No. 39 of the 21st of June. 6. The Acting Captain Superintendent of Police is of opinion that the Opium smuggling junks, which of late years had caused so much correspondence respecting the "blockade of Hongkong" made the village of Yaumatee in British Kowloon the chief base of their operations. In a report on another subject from the Harbour Master, dated 19th September 1874, he incidentally refers to the fact that, until the month of May this year, several junks at Yaumatee were in the habit of leaving Hongkong Harbour without reporting their departure as required by Ordinance 6 of 1866. Mr Thomsett says:- "Until May several junks anchored at and left the place (Yaumatee) without reporting at all; now all native craft are subject to the same supervision as obtains...
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No complaints-

respecting Opium smiggling from Honghong to China have been made since the date of the Petition I had the honour of transmitting to _..__. Your Lordship in my dispatch 1:39 9345 of the 21st of June.

6.

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much correspondence respecting the "blockade of "Hongkong" made the village of Youmatec in British Kowloong the chief base of their ___ operations.

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149

subject from the Harbour Master, dated 19th September 1874, he incidentally__

refers to the fact that, until the month of May

several

this

Year

were in.

junks at Yaumatee the habit of leaving Honghong Harbour without reporting their departure as required by Ordinance 6 of 1866. Mr Thomsett says:-

"

Until May

several junks anchored ~ and left the plase ( You- matee) without reporting " at all; now all native

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craft are subject to the_

"same

supervision

as obtains

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