Confutation to considerably more than that started in the Account published in the Hongkong Gazette of 25th June 1841,
1st, 384 - 7,800 feet, and 1850, 900 feet,
in all 114, 700 feet,
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I venture to point out that in consequence of circumstances which it is unnecessary to detail, we have been obliged to build two retaining sea walls, which will account for part of such increased measurement; and at the same time to observe that the pickets placed on the ground by the Government Officers, may be deemed to define the limits of our property than the published amount of superficial measurement, which, we think, is more fairly an error in computation, surveying, or printing.
We may be allowed, in following the pagination of the Government of Hong Kong, to point out that the quantity of water frontage which was purchased was a matter of speculation in land, but having regard to the limited quantity of such land which was available at the time of sale, we confined our purchases to what was strictly and indispensably necessary for our establishment, and that relying on the limits remaining unaltered, we did not doubt to increase our interest in such land elsewhere. Any alteration reducing our very limited extent of building ground could therefore occasion serious inconvenience, besides causing loss from money gone to the expense of making the foundation of our house, and ordering...