CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4] — Page 13

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undertaking that no more

prepared Opium would be brought

into the waters of Honghong

in the

Messageries Maritimes Steamers for

the next four months, being the

-period within which we

decision on

the case

thought a might be received

from Paris and London.

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You will not fail to notice. that there were two main points the judgment of the Supreme Court,- the question of the status of the Ship, : and the question of prepared Opium

in transitu. No doubt Monsieur Slichon had both in view when he declined to give facilities for the service of the Writ. As to the first,

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it is to be regretted that Lord Granville's idea was not carried out of framing

rules to

govern.

cases

of this kind

(Foreign Office's letter 14th November 1879

Despatch No 172, 15th November 1872) For As to the question of prepared

Opium in transit I think it should be met by. alteration of the Opium

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an

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Ordinance of 1858. The Farmer Si38 39 should be deprived of the Ser$839

inconvenient power he

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possesses under that Ordinance, and the Opium Farm should be protected, as at Singapore, by