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Colony to see the Chinese Revenue Stations and Revenue Cruisers removed beyond the limits of British territory

and British waters.

It has beer sugposted that this might be accomplished by taking the collection of the Oplum Revenue into our own hands. Hongkong is rightly jealous of the status as an absolutely free port to which its comercial prosperity is so largely due. The creation of bonded warehouses, and insistence that all Opium imported into the Colony shall be deposited therein would be certain infringement upon that status; but the inconvenience of admitting a foreign proventive service would be inzeasurebly greater.

That is, then, the solution which is proposed. The

Hongkong Government would, presumably, in such case, under- take to collect as an oxport tex, and hand over to the Chinese Authorities, (after deducting the cost of collec- tion) the recognised amount which the latter ought properly

to collect as an import duty on their own soll.

service would be great, and the consideration raquired

should be the complete removal of the Chinese Customs and

all its accessories beyond British Limita.

The

It would be desirable, as a corollary, that the pro-

posed Bounay Tins of the new Concession should be recti-

fled. That which has boon indicated appears arbitrary

and unsatisfactory, in that it presents ro natural divi-

alon,

wherare a good natural frontier exists in a range

of hills a 11tle further to the North. The extension

would be alight; and the change would be an advantage to

the Chinese not less than to ourselves, as passes through

hills can be more easily protected against smugglers than

the open frontier which was at first proposed. The term&

of the Convention appear sufficiently elastic to permit

the rectification as a logical consequence of surveys