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to Your Lordship in his despatch No. 39 of the 28th of February 1877, he also recorded as aware, Your Lordship is doubtless his views as to the extent to which this Government might be properly expected to go, in the direct discouragement of illicit traffic and the punishment of smugglers.
2.
That he should have desired to terminate the question before proceeding to his new Government was natural. It had occupied his attention more, perhaps, than other public questions; he had mastered all its details, and by his unremitting anxiety to protect the commercial interests of the Colony was he had justly gained the entire confidence of the mercantile community. He was therefore well aware that the most valuable boon he could leave to Hong Kong and the greatest service he could confer on his successor would be to record his own accumulated experience and sound judgment as embodied in a formal proposal for the settlement of the blockade question; and this accordingly he did, on the day before he embarked for Queensland.
3.
The proposals he made on behalf of this Government were substantially as follows:- that the three revenue stations which the Chinese authorities had established
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to Your Lordship in his despatch n. 39 of the 28th of February 1877, he also
recorded as
aware,
Your Lordship is doubtless
his views as to the extent to
which this Government might be ~ properly expected to
до,
in the direct
discouragement of illicit traffic and
the punishment of smugglers.
2.
That he should have
desired to terminate the question
before proceeding to his new
Government
was
natural. It
very
had occupied his attention more
perhaps than other public question;
A
he had mastered all its details, and
by his unremitting anxiety to protect the commercial interests of the Colony
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was
he had justly gained the entire confidence
of the mercantile community. He therefore well aware that the most.
valuable boon he could leave to Hongthong and the greatest.
greatest servise he could
confer
and
on his successor would be to record his own accumulated experience sound judgment
as embodied in a
[of
formal proposal for the settlement o the blockade question; and this
on
the
day before
accordingly he did. he embarked for Queensland.
on
3.
The proposals he make
were
behalf of this Government substantially as follows:- that the three revenue stations which the Chinese authorities had established
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