No.
APPENDIX TO REPORT FROM THE LAND COMMISSION OF 1886-87.
Appendix, No. 7,-(Continued).
(No 5.)
FORM OF RECEIPT BY REGISTRAR GENERAL OR TREASURER FOR ORIGINAE
VILLAGERS' RENT AND CULTIVATED LAND.
RECEIVED from
of House No.
and Cents
for Cultivated land Rent for the year 188 REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
188
for House Rent and $
and Cents
47
Appendix, No. 8.
RETURN FURNISHED BY THE NAVAL AUTHORITIES.
The Vice-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief China Squadron, to the Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong.
SIR,
" “AUDACIOUS AT SEA { Lang. 106. 54. N.
14th March, 1887.
In reply to Your Excellency's letter G of the 11th ultimo, No. 38, on the sale and tenure of Admiralty property in the Colony of Hongkong, I have the honour to forward you herewith a report which I called for from Commodore MORANT, and with which I entirely concur.
His Excellency
The Hon, W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.,
Administering the Government,
HONGKONG.
I have, &c.,
(Signed)
R. VESEY HAMILTON,
Vice-Admiral.
SIR,
Commodore Morant's remarks relative to certain Questions of the Land Commission (Hongkong) on the subject of the sale and tenure of the Land of the Colony.
"VICTOR EMANUEL " AT
HONGKONG, 7th March, 1887.
In reply to your memo. No. 7 of the 12th ultimo on the Acting Governor's letter of the 11th of the same month No. 38 G, I beg to enclose a statement from the Officer Superintending Admiralty works whom I called upon to reply as far as he was able to the queries enumerated in the Governor's letter, to which I beg to append the following remarks for your
consideration.
Question No. 64.--The only obstruction that the Naval Authorities offer to the wishes of the Colonial Government is that of objecting to the Praya being extended in front of the Naval Yard in Victoria, and this I believe would be sanctioned under certain conditions, if the Military Authorities handed over the North Barracks and adjacent ground to the Admiralty; the correspondence on this subject with your predecessor is I believe in your office.
Question No. 96.-I am of opinion that it would be advantageous to the public service, if the Naval Yard establishment could be moved from the present site in Victoria to the West side of the Kowloon Peninsula, as at present we are very much cramped for room and there is no depth of water alongside our pier, and having already stores and the Torpedo establishment at Kowloon, great inconvenience besides a considerable amount of extra expense is entailed by having two establishments so far apart from one another.
Question No. 97.—The position most suitable for a new establishment is from the Police Camber at Kowloon to the Naval Yard, having a good depth of water alongside the sea frontage, perfectly protected from the prevailing winds, this land is now in the occupation of the Kowloon Wharf Company, P. & O. Company, and Mr. E. SHARP, but Piers have been