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to less than 4 piculo, at Korvoon to about 6 piculs, and this might have been opium brought up by sailors from India or Singapore
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or Macao.
With these details
Lord Knutsford's question can better dealt with and also the
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-question raised recently by Whitehead, a Member of Council, so
v opium bonded warehouse.
as to levying duty
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Lord Knutsford points out that this Government had tried the experiment of granting Licenses to a wan
number of persons, ~ and that it was not
very successful.
The Government in
That is so. But it was in this wise,
1883 was driven to that course.
by
combination of
the
Opium
Farmers. The revive raised
from the farm was $132,000 per
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up till 1878 when Sir
John Pope Hennessey induced the Saigon farmers to come here,
and
they got the farm for
:ears at $205,000 per
years
~
three
But the old farmers established
themselves at Macao, and a
as they
had the command of the sale of opium in Australia and Americas
which they derived large
fran which
profits, they almost ruined the Saigon farmer. Ste had to contend against the Macas people souding in cheap prepared opium into Hongkong.
He had no
properexaive staff and had trusted to make his
money
out of
of the large sales in
Forciger Markets.
The old farmers
10, and
arranged
with him to
go, ostarred the farm for one year
at $2:0,000 from Sir John Pope Harnessy.
When
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