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Page 4 of Parent. 1

No. Sin

66.1189/75.

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opposite view. He said:

305

"With a full appreciation of all

'the unpopularity which my recommendations would, if

"adopted, entail upon their author, I conceive that the

"shortest, best and only remedy for the disputes and

"references, which have existed for years, endangering our

"good relations with the Canton Government, is to re-

*-cognise the establishment of a branch of the Chinese

"Foreign Inspectorate at Hongkong itself...........*

"which is at present substantially, but clandestinely,

"practised and aequiesced in by those Chinese merchants

"residing in this Colony who desire to avoid trouble and

*the risk of seizure and "squeezing" by low officials out*

"-side the harbour limits".

course

(No. 2 in Parliamentary Blue Book 0.1189 of

1875.)

On the 22nd. March, 1875, the Earl of Car-

narvon in acknowledging this despatch referred to a

proposal made by Sir T. Wade that a Chinese Consul

should be appointed to reside in Hongkong and added "it

'appears to me that, in connection with the difficulty that "has unfortunately arisen, no really substantial arguments

*could be advanced against entrusting to a Chinese Consul

in Hongkong the privilege in collecting from Junk Masters

"receipts for export duty levied in China and issuing to

"them similar receipts for duty payable on account of

importations into China, and that the practical advantages

*resulting from these arrangements would more than oem-

*-pensate for the inconvenience which has been apprehended

"from the appointment of such a functionary. I do not over-

*-look the fact that generally speaking it is not the

"duty of one country to assist in enforcing the revenue

"laws of another, but in view of the peculiar conditions

"under which we hold the Island of Hongkong and of the

"facilities offered to smuggling by its exceptionel position

"as a free port in a Foreign Country it would be the part

*of