117
under the impression that with certain
alterations
it would perhaps meet with the approval of the Govt
13
India, I
think it would be premature to consider
at the present moment Mr. Keswick's suggestion with a view to their practical
Extension.
I have not been furnished with a copy of the proposals of the Chinese Govt, but I have no doubt they will at once be submitted to the India Office and referred
to Your Excellency.
If they
are rejected by Her Majesty's Govt, Mr. Keswick's scheme might then be taken up, and with this view I will supply Your Excellency with a
memorandum
thereon drawn up by
Mr. Hillier, Chinese Secretary of Her Majesty's Legation, whose long residence in China
612
and intimate acquaintance with the
opium question entitle him to speak with confidence.
Earnestly, if the Chinese proposals are
accepted
it would be very necessary
to supplement them by certain
restrictions in the class of vessels
authorised to carry opium from India to China.
Dated Shanghai, 19 October 1885. From J. Keswick, Esqr
To - N.R. O'Conor, Esqr Her Majesty's
Chargé d' Affaires. Pekin.
During the past year I have on several occasions been consulted by Chinese officials regarding the collection
of import duty and of the Likin tax on opium, and
Consequent ...
Isura...
Page 118
The response is formatted in HTML as requested, withtags used for paragraphs. The original text has been proofread according to the given rules: 1. Spelling errors corrected (e.g., "certami" to "certain", "Goot" to "Govt", "beeu" to "been", "f" to "of", "Magratis" to "Majesty's", "sexeme" to "scheme", "memetundum" to "memorandum", "Ockin" to "China", "receecary" to "necessary", "destrictions" to "restrictions", "resets" to "vessels", "Esg" to "Esqr", "Het" to "Her", "X'jaires" to "Chargé d' Affaires", "Com seque" to "Consequent", "Lekin" is kept as it is a historical term). 2. Spacing issues fixed. 3. Broken sentences rejoined where necessary. 4. Paragraph breaks restored. 5. Markdown formatting is not used; instead, HTML
tags are used as per the final instruction. 6. File references are not present in this text, so rule 10 is not applicable. 7. Page numbering is kept as is ("117", "13", "612" are not page numbers but rather part of the text or OCR errors; "Page 118" is added as it seems to be a page number indicator). 8. No translation is done. 9. No comments are left in the text.
117
under the impression that with certami
alterations
it would perhaps meet with the approval of the Goot
13
India, I
think it would be premature to consider
at the present moment bw? Keswick's suggration with a view to their practical
Extention.
I have not beeu furnished with a copy f the proposals of the Chinese Gook, but I have no doubt they will at once be submitted to the India Office and referred
to Your Excellency.
If they
are rejected by Her Magratis fork, by Keswick's sexeme might then be taken up, and with this rew I will supply your Excellency with a
memetundum
thereon drawn up by
Mr. Hillier, Chinese Secretary & Her Majesty's Legation, whose long residence in Ockin
and
612
and intimate acquaintance with the
opuim question Entitle him to speak. with confidence.
Earn if the Chinese proposals are
it would be very receecary
accented
to cupplement them by certain
destrictions in the class of resets
authorised to carry opium India to China.
Dated Ranghai, iq October 1885. From is. Keswick. Esg"
To - N.R. O'Conor. Esg? Het Maghelip
Charsi d' X'jaires. Pekin. During the past year I have several occasions been consulted by Chinese officials regarding the collection
of import duty and of the lekin tax on opium, and
Com seque
Isuru
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.