Ordnance Department.
I may add that the ground applied for by you included a lot demised by the Ordnance, usufructuary of 4 years ago, my lease to a private person.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) W. J. Mercer,
Colonial Secretary,
True Copy
Colonial Secretary
No. 213 Hong Kong Government Offices, Victoria,
Hong Kong 12th January, 1886
Financial.
Sir,
MAR 7 1886
Copy to Treasury, for information 18 March 1886.
Draft with Bov. 2100.
Answered 4 April 1886
In Continuation of my Despatch No. 13 of 10th instant; I have the honor to state that after consultation with the Colonial Treasurer, and being satisfied that the public service would allow a large sum to be deposited at interest, I discussed Mr. Gray's letter at a meeting of the Executive Council, agreeably to the 4th Section of chapter IX of the Colonial Regulations, who having concurred with me in opinion the result is embodied in the Colonial
The Right Honorable
Sir George Grey, Bart. &c. &c. M. P.