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:the End of Library of all prepared opium

in the hands

1%

the Licences, and again

on the miglich

of

the 28th February, do that

With the daily preturtus how flown to the Chath

be able to

Jeh

Elatiolies

of great value,

as to what is borbid for the Colony itself as well as for report - Stavnig regard to the population compared with the

Shails, the reuse is small, but it is

ƒ

to be borne, wi mund that the thirty

there is much heavier, and that the

people here are not Euch opene

Smokers as are the people from Fohlen Province from which the Straits

the

are worited.

Now that it is teen that the

Government is determined not to be

Equeezed there are many Chinese who

Come and say that the old farmers

bere "too Eaucy" - and that the Government will get of 250,000 at least,

!

and I have little douth, as is reported,

WooCo

Such that the harmbers

of the Yau

are afraid that other "Chops" will make Pero way in the Foreign Markets, and that they don't sewers will what to do. They

are a shared to come in at once,

but they must do it - It is simply

a Matter