Copy
Joan Mayn's Office,
Notnia, Honghong,
15th May 1866.
I have the honor
"I have the limim by direction
of the £t. LoL, Conndg., to request You will call the attention of His Excellency the Governor to certain houses now building at the West-end of the Esplanade, for the crown.
reason
that should those houses be built of the height of the adjoining houses they will moon certain guns of the Murray Battery, and will at all times be liable to injury both from concussion and portions of ignited...
wander.
I The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary,
etc.