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packages in question, escorted by a guard of Portuguese soldiers, were placed in a junk and towed by a Portuguese Goverment towboat and duly shipped on board the "China" which was anchored in Chinese waters about 2 miles to the N.W. of Chung Chao (Luang) Island. The Customs officer in charge of the crusing launch "Paktou" then went on board the "China" and asked the Captain to give a receipt

for the 132 cheats of Prepared Opium. This he refused to do, the

Chief Officer saying that the contents was not opium but Imitation

Opium which had been shipped. As my officer then got suspicious he asked for a case to be opened, which was done by the Chief

Officer of the "China" himself. The contents was a brown mixture

in tins which was supposed by my officer to be opium but he had

had no experience of the drug. The Captain then gave a receipt

for 132 cases of Chinese merchandise and the ship sailed for

America, via Shanghai. But on arrival at that port the Captain

of the "China" informed the Commissioner of Customs there that

but for the supervision of the shipment by the Lappa Customs cruiser

he would have throw these 132 packages overboard in the Formosa

channel. That he received them on board his ship on the instruct-

ions from the Hongkong Agents of the steamer, and that he gave no

receipt to the shippers or a Bill of Lading for them. He was

unable to say who the shippers were and knew nothing of their

contents or the reason for which they were to be thrown overboard,

The cases contained tins more or less full of a sticky mixture

resembling molasses, but no opium at all. The Manifest, signed

by the Captain, read "132 packages Chinese Medicine. For discharge

on the High Deep Saa”. In other words to be thrown overboard.

On the 8th ultimo the above information was given

by me to His Excellency the Governor of Macao who at once caused an

enquiry to be made by the Colonial Secretary and the Chief Justice. The Attorney General, I believe, is now preparing a case for prosecution against the Opium Farmer.

Two sample cases of this so-called opium have been received by me intact from the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai, and on the 12th instant these cases were opened in my office in the

presence