4.
from the sale of the sea front-
age, but so long.
as that re-
mains unsold we shall
find it imposible to sell the ground in the rear which is the only remain
ing locality adjoining the City suitable for building;
it is interspersed with large
bolder rocks and the ca
pense of making roads and
drains perhaps
great,
may
be
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doubt
but I have
that the premium for the
purchase of it would re-
pay
that
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outlay.
need hardly point
the notice of the
out to the
Honourable
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Honourable the Lieutenant.
the
Governor how great are prejudices of the Chinese, the
neighbourhood of this dis trict is almost exclusively occupied by them, and it
a task of no small.
would be
difficulty if not impossibility
to form another. Town at the only other available site, viz:__ Causeway Bay which is
three miles off.
In addition to the
above it appears to me, and.
I am
strengthened
in
my
opinion by that of Captain
Cowper, at present Command. ing Royal Engineer, that the
whole