Tt would appear by the tables in the Customs Report on the trade of China for last year that at the stations which were aod in April last year at Kowloon near the trade hongkong, and Lappa near Macao, that ing through the former was eae Les 212.9.8.5, about double that of Lapa. Kowloon con- Eh 364,547.0.8.6 tributed Haikwan Taels 376,126 and Lappa Haikwan Taels 187,658, in which sums /ekin and Ching-fei taxes were included. The Kowloon Customs House collected H. Tis.
160,271 and that the Lappa H. Tls. 53,133 783,110,1.2.4 on Import duties and on Export duties H.
5,331, 888.6.1.2 Tls. 48,361, and H. Tls. 21,115 respectively. Ningpo 848,922. 3.4.7 In opium duty the collection at the two Wenchow offices was closer in amount, being H. Tls.
45,580 at Kowloon and H. Tls. 30,929 at '584,523.6.2.7 Lappa, while the lekin on opium collected 337,576.3.6.8 Kowloon it was H. Tle. 121,813 and at Lapy 1.039,190.7.0. H. Tls. 82.479. These accounts are scarcely complete, as regards the cargoes of junks outwards and inwards, which are partly dealt 1,904,633.0.6.6 '376,126.5.3.9 with at the native Customs. But they give 187, 658.2.3.7 some indication of the trade passing these 207/914.5.3.9 stations, which was, at all events to some 231,668.2.1.7 Returns. extent, not taken into account in previous
The total import of opium into China was 74.005 cheats in 1887. which, was only
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