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Colony. He native Junk trade, of

course, is employed in producing

the wealth of the Colony, but

every

householder in this industrions

Community, every chinese trader, every huropean

Mwan

of business,

every Portuguese desk who works

away

with his pen in a merchant's Office, is producing

wealth

his labour, and I think

it hard we should be deriving from

a direct tax upon such householders

the largest single item

reverme."

9.

of

our

My conviction that the

Thium Farm had been undersold

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in 1876,

was

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jualified for the fact that

was able to sell it for $205,500

Can

Year instead of $132,000 (the sum

that had to appene in the Estimates

framed

lask

year for 1879). In other

words, after my financial Statement

in betober, and my

speech on the Estimates in Kovember 1878,

I was

able to add, on this one item alone, Leventy three thousand Dollars a

year

to the permanent revenue of the Colony. I have duly reported

to

you

that there is some

posibility

of my being able to add a somewhat similar sum to our permanent

revenue

by establishing a Spirit Farm.