Chamber of Commerce celebrates ite jubilee, and to mark the event Mr. Edbert A. Hewett, the Chamber's repreantative on the Hongkoog Lagllative Council, has written tory of the Chamber from ite vosrpion on May 29.1861, to date. Mr. Hewett has forwarded us a copy of his booklet, mich is fall of interesting information as a history of the Chamber necessarily clovely allied with the history of British trade in Chine daring the past half century. It is not our purpose this notice to relate what the Chambers of Commerce of Hongkong, Shanghai and other ports bare aocomplished for British and other foreiga trade in China, bat it remark apon the weight whi todion wield and bow from their iaception they have, io the Far East, as elsewhere, demanded for the merchant that is his dae {com State Departments snd cpatrolliog bodies. In Hongkong, for example, the Chamber of Commerce has exercised itself in such questi British Treaties with Chis before the Colonial Legislatnr Chinece Imperial Maritime Costome, la nina, Carreney Reform, to name only a fow of ite activities. The Ia'ions of the different foreiga Chaw-bore of Commerce in China have alia been cordial and, particularly in the cases of Hongkong and Shanghai, there has been a free interchange of vi resultant ce operation whenever p Uafortunataly the efforts of the Cha bers have not alm success deserved, but much has be attained by ce-operation and pertioncity on the part of merchants that otherwise would not have been achieved.
The British flag was hoisted over Hongkong on January 26, 1841, but it was not until twenty years Later that Chamber of Commerce was founded inthe Oolong. search through the local papers of the day has failed to show how the first steps were taken towards forming the Chamber, and it would appear probable that the matter
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