CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5] — Page 468

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A petition, copy of which is enclosed, represented that since the commencement of his lease of the Opium Farm in March 1889, he had been carrying on the business at a heavy loss, and asked that the grant under which he held the Farm might be modified.

There was not time to investigate and deal finally with the matter before I left for England, and on my return at the end of last year I found that during my absence, a long correspondence had been going on between the Government, the Canton and Macao steamship Companies, and the Commissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District, on the subject of the great increase in the smuggling of opium into China.

Several serious collisions ...

25th Jany. 1890.

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463 37 1. A petition, copy of which is enclosed, represented that since the commencement of his lease of the Opium Farm in March 1889, he had been carrying on the business at a heavy loss, and asked that the grant under which he held the Farm might be modified. There was not time to investigate and deal finally with the matter before I left for England, and on my return at the end of last year I found that during my absence, a long correspondence had been going on between the Government, the Canton and Macao steamship Companies, and the Commissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District, on the subject of the great increase in the smuggling of opium into China. Several serious collisions ... 25th Jany. 1890. 10

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2 463 37 1. petition, copy of which is Eneli y endlosed, represented that since the commencement of his lease of the Opium Farm in March 1889 he had been carrying on the business at a heavy loss, : and asked that the grant under which he held the Farm might be modified. There was not time to investigate and deal finally with the matter before I left for England, and 25th Jany. 1890. } 10 and on my return at the end of last year I found that during my a absence long correspondence had been going on between the Government, the Canton and Macae steamship Companies, and the Commissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District, on the subject of the great increase in the smuggling of opium into China. Leveral serious Collisions ! の

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petition, copy of which is Eneli y

endlosed, represented that

since

the commencement

of his lease of the Opium Farm in March 1889

had been carrying on the business at a heavy loss, : and asked that the grant

under which he held the

Farm might be modified.

There was not time

to investigate and deal

finally

with the matter

before I left for England,

and

25th Jany.

1890.

}

and on

my return at the end of last year I found

that during my

absence

long correspondence had been going

on between the

Government, the Canton and Macae steamship

Companies, and the

Commissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District, on the subject of the great increase in the smuggling of opium into China.

Leveral serious

Collisions

の

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