Foreign Office
For Offi
Ming
Offer
406
Nord Standing
Thanks soot this be enforced to the Land and lenghi Coned?
Shingh the former Rafters 2.376 Ang
门
worn word de afered?
Send to the both the farmer county
should also
in 1683 Huy Kary.
Statement of
Lots of Land in
RECEIVED
008 4
508
a claim to certain
a
Land in Hong Kong, by Robert
Webster, British Merchant in China;
for the information of The Right Honble Lord Stanley, Secretary of
State for
the Colonial Department.
In May 1842 a
Grant was made
by Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor of
Hong Kong, of some lots of
land
On
Island to Captain & Meik, who immediately
there after expended a considerable sum
of money in Cutting down and
levelling the ground; and had made considerable progress in erecting buildings upon it, when
he was in consequence of sickness obliged to leave the Island. On his departure
he left written instructions with the late Mr. Shuck to dispose of the lots, and
buildings thereon, in the state in which they stood;
they were bought
by Gre
and
they
Lalalo
and another party for 960