CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5] — Page 306

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C O P Y.

Customs Decennial Report 1891.

Enclosure

12 303

CO

18 JUN 1910! 16121

Establishment of Chinese Maritime Customs.

Hongkong.

Reos 28 MAY 10

For some 20 years prior to 1887, four

revenue stations had been established by the Chinese

Government round Hongkong, for the collection of Duties, Likin, &c. These stations were situated (1) at Capsuimun (2) on the **** island of Chongchow, (3) at Fattauchow and

(4) in Kowloon City; and they remained under exclusively

native management until 1887. *Their existence and proced

-ure", writes Mr. J. MeLeavy Brown, Commissioner of Customs

for Kowloon and District, in a report dated 31st. December,

1891, "and the actions of the revenue cruisers attached to

"them were viewed with great dislike by the people of

"Hongkong, who, while not actually denying the right of

*the Chinese Government to make in their own territory

"what arrangements seem best suited for the protection of

"their own revenue, looked upon the stations and their

"cruisers, as constituting a fiscal "blockade" of the

*Colony and as unduly interfering with the trade of the

"place as carried on in Junks. This feeling on the art of

"the Colony against the stations became intensified from *time to time as complaints were made of harsh or ir-

-regular treatment, not necessarily wholly unfounded,

*received by the Junks with their cargo at the stations or

from revenue cruisers." The irritation caused by these

complaints led to various suggestions to provide a remedy,

and it was almost simultaneously proposed by Mr. C. C.

Smith, the Registrar-General, and Sir Thomas Wade, His

Majesty's Minister, Peking, that communications should be

opened with the Imperial Government with a view to the establishment of a branch of the Foreign Customs inspector-

-ate in Hongkong for the sole collection of duty on Ex Opium imported into the Two Kuang Provinces. Sit T. Wade