One of the chief sources of revenue in the Portuguese colony is the opium farm, and its letting is always an event of some importance in that Sleepy Hollow. The auction of this farm was held on the 16th inst., when the present farmer succeeded in securing the new lease for $330,000.
'a very sensible augmentation of the Macao revenue, for it is an increase of nearly two lakhs on the last lease,
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