Correspondence is official.
You will inform N Irwin accordingly; and
Here is in finality any question pending Whoren the local frumstund the Dicht on the short shi letter
will report to me when it.
CO 1290/85
WO 30001~
Sir,
Liverpool 10 December 1855.
REGISTRED DEC. 5 1855
We are proprietors of a Bungalow property at West Point, Hong Kong, which was built by us at considerable cost in the year 1854. In same year the Government Authorities applied for permission to rent the premises for six months, as a Barrack for a Battery, and it was accordingly let to them at a rent of $100 on the understanding that any damage done should be made good by the Government on its being given up.
At the expiration of the term the Government gave up the possession, and in June 1855 we had an opportunity of selling the property for $3000. But the sale was prevented by the Government interposing and giving notice that they might yet resume its possession for their own use. We further remonstrated, urging that on justice the property should either be purchased by the Government at once, or leave given to dispose of it to others, on which we were informed that the matter had been referred to the Home Government.
Now although more than the time required for a reply had elapsed, nothing up to this date had been decided, as we have seen by the following extract from a communication from the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong under date September last:
“By a despatch received by this Mail from the Colonial Office it appears that the question of property at the West Point was still undecided.” As soon…
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