Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1857, ka noho a Van Straubenzee hei Kaiwhakahaere i nga Hupirimi o Ingarangi i Hong Kong, a ka arahi i tetahi
whakaeke i Canton i te Pakanga Opium Tuarua. I te tau 1862, i whakawhiwhia ia hei rangatira rangatira mo te wehenga o te ope taua o Bombay i Ahmedabad, ana ka riro i a ia te mana o te ope taua o Bombay.