No. 43

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch No. 5
of the 10th of January, enclosing a letter from Mr Green,
late Acting Consul General at Honolulu pointing out that British
Interests in the Sandwich Islands will suffer if Victoria be not
maintained as a free Port.

2. Mr Green is a partner in the House of Rhodes, Green
and Janion of Victoria and would I doubt not be glad to see that
town supported as formerly principally by the taxation levied on
the people inhabiting the Mainland. The freedom of the Port, much
impaired before Union, has now been withdrawn, but I do not see that
the foreign trade of Victoria need suffer, as the most liberal
system of Bonding has been established.