CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12] — Page 68

a

has not sonoothed them

This reflection, while excusing

Military governor down agai

again. their

Spposition, if

it needs excuse

also

detrarts from it's value, as being possibly

opposition rather the

for the salle

J

On

7341.91

than on

Straits will be found

Some account of what the

bargus

opium monokin

most carefully

next tum expires must be most Looner the better

•

considered, and the

671

_75. I think the colmial government were right

to tie themselves to

a

limit of time,

time,

***

ht

there is no harm in saying, as M. Johnson huggests, that they should not exceed three to the Secretary of

on principle.

years

without ference

found

a

C. I aque

sheds out

i

а

possibly

the

in the Eastern colonies amounts to

Straits will be

him

On 14670.91 despatch to the new governor of Hagting dated the 31st of October last, asking to consider the possibility of abolishing the farming system. This haveven

Could not in

in any

New

case

A

be done till the

new lease expirts 18. till 1. March. 95 - M. Johnson Knows this subject very exhaustively: I only add the following

his minute - See maginal

Ā " I should read - Sauction the ordinances

to

supplement his

but call attention to the

despatch of

the

of

as

State.

to searching

government may call upon the steamship companies

t

provide them instead of providing them themselves; this is suggested in the 8th pasopan. of

Mitchell Innes' minute.

D. I agree

the

arusight. I fear

was mine

E. J'agree

lettas

m

(See 1.

31st October.

adding

that in the counter

of the saph theer grove the possibility

thoing without the farming system after the

Under the prevent contract the farmer might boil 30% baths of opicion per month ( Se pan. 11 of

Chests

M: Mitchell Ihnes' minute) ; hit it was reduced to 125 chests

per

month by Sie W. Des Vaux

in 1891 (11621.91), this being the farmer could

· Much as

the

export

the Macas

vœux

supposed to be all

inas.

legitimately dises. If farmer could beat with in

trade. If the Macao and Hong Kong farms were in the same haude, a greate mount apparently