Inclosure
Despatch
No 29 of 1849.
"Revenue and Expenditure,
Estimated and actual
Comparative Statement
Hongkong.
Duplicate.
for
the
Year
December, 1848. –
15th March, 1849.
No. 30.
Civil
Costing
My Lord,
Pretoria, Hongkong,
23rd March, 1849.
I have the honor to report
that. It having become necessary for a professional person to proceed to Shanghai for the purpose of surveying the ground; as well as of preparing plans for the Consulate proposed to be erected there, I deemed it expedient, in the absence of any other available person, to appoint the Surveyor General for the performance of this duty, and he consequently left this Colony
in the Coquette, for
the 3rd Instant in
Shanghai, his passage being of course charged to the Foreign Office.
"There being no Colonial buildings
in progress, Mr Cleverly can be better spared
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,