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Vistoria, Hongkong,
30.
6th August, 1825.
Governor
The Lord Starley.
N121.
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Received
Lord Stanley.
the Memorial to the Governor's Remarks on
the Merchants to
Transmitting Reply from
In 1889 kr. 9 36
The Honorable Major W. Caine .
Officiating Celonial Secretary.
Sin,
Me
& are
directed by the parties who-
signed the Memorial forwarded through His
Excellency the Governor
the
02-2--
13th instant, to transmit
" following reply to the remarks contained in
25th instant.
your letter of 25:
The reasoning by which it is attempted to show, that the high rents in Hongkong have been voluntarily paid we conceive to be entirely fallacious. The facts connected with the early sales of land have been already adverted to in the Memorial. We may however observe, in further explanation, that in June 1841, when the first Sale was held, 180 Lots having Water frontage, and 100 Suburban Lots, advertized. for Sale, but owing to the very unfortunate
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were
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