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its connection with the Foreign

trade. The Diners have in

flocked to the Colony for the advantage which it offer. If a quiet and secure

secure Government- than which a Chinaman values

nothing

more, and for this

they have been runde to

pay

They constitute 98 per cent

of the population and probable,

a similar

contribute nearly proportion of the revenue. They have make the Chom the centre

of a

lavee local coasting

Deist at which the

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produce of the North and

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South destined for consumption

in china clansps hand."–

In the leventeen years that have elapsed since Governo Robinson is wrote, the Aimere trakers have absorbed a considerable

troportion even of the Freisn trake. At As this nutment the largest intiritual Steam-shir owner in Hongkong in St. Juric actors.

He has thirteen Steamers

ploping under the British Lag between Hongkong and the Treaty Porks.

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