CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 231

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Enclosure 1.

To The Right Stonsurable

The Marquis of Ripon K. C. M. Gre

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State

Respectfully Shewith

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for

the Colorries

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The Aucuble Memorial of the Han Fook Company, lately carrying business at Victored in the bolony of as dealers in prepared Opium

Houghong

Your Memorialists were the grantees pour the

Colonial Government under the provisions of atte Prepared Opeium Ordinance 1891 of the sole privilege of preparing and selling prepared opum wution the kolory of Honghong for time years from the pot

1892 to the 26th Choruary 1695.

March

obtaining

In accordance with the conditions published in

Memorialists at the time

the Hongkong Government Gazette your I

of the grant of the opium Imonopoly deposited a sum of $85, 2000 in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the

of the Colonial Ctreasurer as a,

name

a security for the due and

faithful observance and performance by ctueur of the several conditions upon which the grant

was made

at the time

your

Memorialisto tendered for monopoly the Chinese population of Hougtong 215, 17/8 and increasing

the

was estimated at as it did at the harmal rate the Chinese population in April 1894 was estimated at 229, bote.

At the beginning of May 1894 an epidemic disease known as

the bubonie plaque and edditical with the great plaque which visited London in the sixteenth century suddenly made tho

Such a disease had not been known in appearance in Hong Kong this Colony before and the dreadful mortality that took place amongs ninety per. cut of those seized dying of the dinase

· feeling of

of consternation and panic amought the inhabitants of Hougtong bulqual to anything that had previously buen huown

those attacked, over,

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