There is no Jardine nor Dent, nor Matheson nor Turner nor Gibb nor Livingston, and, at the same time, the Opium trade, out of which some of those houses made such immense fortunes, has entirely slipped away from them. That trade, which now reaches one million pounds sterling per month in Hongkong, is in the hands of Sassoon's, of Belilios and a few native houses; whilst the mercantile firms that now send English goods into China from this island are mainly Chinese firms of the Colony.
In submitting the following list to Your Lordship, I have included Mr Belilios' name as I believe there is some misconception in paragraph 6 of Sir Michael Hicks Beach's despatch regarding this gentleman. The fact is that Mr. Belilios, though born in India, is one of the leading members of the English community. He is a director of the Hongkong Bank and of most of the local companies, and, I understand, the largest shareholder in some.
The list includes: Francis Bulkeley Johnson, Emanuel Raphael Belilios, Frederick David Sassoon, Henry Liston Dalrymple. Of the four gentlemen whose names are in the foregoing list, Mr. Bulkeley Johnson is in the eminent house of Jardine Matheson & Co.. During his short residence...
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There is no Jardine nor Dent, nor Matheson nor Turner nor Gibb nor Livingston, and, at the same time, the Opium trade, out of which some of those houses made such immense fortunes, has entirely slipped away from them. That trade, which now reaches one million pounds sterling per month in Hongkong, is in the hands of Sassoon's, of Belilios and a few native houses; whilst the mercantile firms that now send English goods into China from this island are mainly Chinese firms of the Colony.
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In submitting the following list to Your Lordship, I have included Mr Belilios' name as I believe there is some misconception in paragraph 6 of Sir Michael Hicks Beach's despatch regarding this gentleman. The fact is that Mr. Belilios, though born in India, is one of the leading members of the English community. He is a director of the Hongkong Bank and of most of the local companies, and, I understand, the largest shareholder in some.
Francis Bulkeley Johnson, Emanuel Raphael Belilios, Frederick David Sassoon, Henry Liston Dalrymple.
Of the four gentlemen whose names are in the foregoing list, Mr. Bulkeley Johnson is in the eminent house of Jardine Matheson & Co.. During his short residence
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There is no Jardine nor Dent, nor Matheson nor Turner nor Gibb nor Livingston, and, at the same time, the Opium trade, out of which some of those houses made such immense fortunes, has entirely slipped away from them. That trade, which now reaches one million pounds sterling per month in Hongkong, is in the hands of Sassoon's, of Belilios and a few native houses; whilst the mercantile firms that now send English goods into China from this island are mainly Chinese firms of the Colony.
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In submitting the following list to Your Lordship, I have included Mr Belilios' name as I believe there is some misconception in paragraph 6 of Sir Michael Hicks Beach's despatch regarding this gentleman. The fact is that Mr. Belilios, though born in India, is one of the leading members of the English community. He is a director of the Hongkong Bank and of most of the local companies, and, I understand, the largest shareholder in some.
Francis Bulkeley Johnson, Emanuel Raphael Belilios, Frederick David Sassoon, Henry Liston Dalrymple.
Of the four gentlemen whose names are in the foregoing list, Mr. Bulkeley Johnson is in the eminent house of Jardine Matheson & Co.. During his short residence
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