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seven months' collections vir.

$125,000. A separate return of

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Opium collection is forwarded for Your Lordship'e information.

3.

Next in importance

to the reduction in Opium Revenue is that from Stampe vir. $12.492 due no doubt to the stagnation in business caused by the prolonged hostile relations between France and China.

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Owing to this cause, imports received from the United Kingdom cannot be disposed

of

Enclosure

Inclosure

of

and accumulate in the hands

of rimporters, whilst bills drawn against consignments have to be met. Shares in all publie stocks are also practically unsaleable and the quotations

Dome

are nominal. Until solution is arrived at of the

differences between France and China, I

see no

prospect of

improvement, and the Revenue must continue to decline. In

reloweth bag to refer to another report

submitted by me as Auditor on

4th