CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3] — Page 554

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I have the honour to acknowledge

with thanks the receipt of Your Lordship's telegram of the

17th. instant informing me that a sum of £9,000 has been

inserted in the Estimates for the coming financial year as

a grant from Imperial Funds to Hongkong in respect of loss-

-es of opium revenue, and that Your Lordship is still in

correspondence with the Treasury as to the grants in the

following two years.

2.

In my telegram of the 5th. October

last I informed Your Lordship that the direct loss of

opium revenue during 1910 would be $225,860 and in my

telegram of the 23rd. ultimo I stated that to this amount

must be added a sum of $16,747 paid as compensation to the

keepers of Opium Divans. The total loss during the current

year is, therefore, a sum of $242,607 and at the present

rate of exchange a grant of £9,000 represents a contribut-

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