374
in 18148.
damaged by the Typhoon
Afterwards, in November 1848,
beref"
18468, hope entirely
one, and I summoned sufficient resolution, and surrendered the lot to the Crown.
A reference to the Money Columns annexed, with
picture this hardship in its true light=
a
In
Sailor's Home, I have
consequence of requiring by petition obtained back the lot from Government, repaired the Buildings, and put my seamen into it, so loath is one to relinquish this property. I beg your intercession specially in this case,
for a reduction of the
enormous rent on this Lot.
over.
Inland Lot P.204 is a square of sixty to seventy feet, bought by me in March 1846; it is perched at the top of a flight of steps
called a Public Road, and is located in the St. Giles of Hongkong; having no better recommendation, it remains unimproved; it is retained by me in consequence of having paid Four years' rental thereon, and in anticipation that
due
(as it deserves), it will share in the meditated
reductions of Ground Rent; otherwise it must be
surrendered.
Inland Lot N.291.A. is an
oblong Fifty
feet by one Hundred feet, bought in October 1846; this Lot, when purchased,
it lies
very
was a Morass or Swamp, high and
low, and the mountain rises
abrupt around it; there was
up of competition
only Two acres put
on this occasion; and in
consequence of Lot 291, (an eighth of an acre), being the best, why,
it was mun
about Seventy-
five per cent, above it, upset annual rent, at which price I, of necessity, bought it. I must
so admit that now I have expended much money
on this Lot and carry
on my
my profession on it, it is of considerable advantage to me,
but
should I lease it, I much fear it would
barely return me
my
rental, it being situated
at the outskirts of the Cantonments some distance
from the centre of the Town; on this Lot also