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intimately affecting the development of this Colony which require settlement satisfactory to this Government. I may mention the employment of British Engineers for the Canton-Hankow Railway, and the junction of that Railway, when constructed, with the Canton-Kowloon line; the introduction of a national Chinese Currency upon which subject I addressed Your Lordship in my Confidential Despatch of the 27th ultimo; and the negotiation of an agreement for working as one concern the Chinese and Hongkong Sections of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.

I would therefore earnestly beg Your Lordship to endeavour to secure for this Colony some adequate return for the loss in revenue which she is bound to suffer if the policy of His Majesty's Government in curtailing the export of Opium from India is persisted in, and for the concessions which she is now being asked to agree to.

9. In the above remarks I have confined myself to the points which specially concern Hongkong in the Memorandum handed to Sir John Jordan by the Wai Wu Pu. But it is evident from the remark in Sir John Jordan's covering Despatch that "the Ministers laid special

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362 intimately affecting the development of this Colony which require settlement satisfactory to this Government. I may mention the employment of British Engineers for the Canton-Hankow Railway, and the junction of that Railway, when constructed, with the Canton-Kowloon line; the introduction of a national Chinese Currency upon which subject I addressed Your Lordship in my Confidential Despatch of the 27th ultimo; and the negotiation of an agreement for working as one concern the Chinese and Hongkong Sections of the Canton-Kowloon Railway. I would therefore earnestly beg Your Lordship to endeavour to secure for this Colony some adequate return for the loss in revenue which she is bound to suffer if the policy of His Majesty's Government in curtailing the export of Opium from India is persisted in, and for the concessions which she is now being asked to agree to. 9. In the above remarks I have confined myself to the points which specially concern Hongkong in the Memorandum handed to Sir John Jordan by the Wai Wu Pu. But it is evident from the remark in Sir John Jordan's covering Despatch that "the Ministers laid special

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f } 362 intimately affecting the development of this Colony which require settlement satisfactory to this Government. I may mention the employment of British Engineers for the Canton- -Hankow Railway, and the junction of that Railway, when Gov 19660 constructed, with the Canton-Kowloon line; the introduction of a national Chinese Currency upon which subject I addressed Your Lordship in my Confidential Despatch of the 27th. ultimo; and the negotiation of an agreement for working as one concern the Chinese and Hongkong Sections of the Canton-Kowloon Railway. I would therefore earnestly beg Your Lordship to endeavour to secure for this Colony some adequate return for the loss in revenue which she is bound to suffer if the policy of His Majesty's Government in curtailing the export of Opium from India is persisted in, and for the concessions which she is now being asked to agree to. 9. In the above remarks I have confined myself to the points which specially concern Hongkong in the Memorandum handed to Sir John Jordan by the Wai Wu Pu. But it is evident from the remark in Sir John Jordan's covering Despatch that "the Ministers laid special

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intimately affecting the development of this Colony which

require settlement satisfactory to this Government. I may

mention the employment of British Engineers for the Canton-

-Hankow Railway, and the junction of that Railway, when

Gov

19660

constructed, with the Canton-Kowloon line; the introduction

of a national Chinese Currency upon which subject I

addressed Your Lordship in my Confidential Despatch of the

27th. ultimo; and the negotiation of an agreement for

working as one concern the Chinese and Hongkong Sections

of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.

I would therefore earnestly beg

Your Lordship to endeavour to secure for this Colony some

adequate return for the loss in revenue which she is

bound to suffer if the policy of His Majesty's Government

in curtailing the export of Opium from India is persisted

in, and for the concessions which she is now being asked

to agree to.

In the above remarks I have

confined myself to the points which specially concern

Hongkong in the Memorandum handed to Sir John Jordan by

the Wai Wu Pu. But it is evident from the remark in Sir

John Jordan's covering Despatch that "the Ministers laid

special

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