Tue Report of Mr. Bourne on the trade of Szechuen for the years 1885 and 1886 has recently been published by the Foreign Office. It is preceded by a despatch from Sir John Walsham direct+ ing attention to Mr. Bourne's remarks on Mr. Holt Hallett's Birmingham speech, the peculiarities of the Szechuen trade, which should be studied by foreigners, and the Transit Pass system, Mr.
tion of the great Province; he then Bourne, opens with a general descrip-Eastern Szechuen, and commences with proceeds to report on the trade -.of the export of its opium. The value of the drug which is exported to the Baste provinces he says is probably not less than 13 millions of taels. It is grown all over the district, and the trade in it is the largest and' most profitable of
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