I travel with this for your information, the copy of as Reports from the Emigration Cor. Re. 027 on the subject.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th instant enclosing the Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, in which he reports the result of a sale of some Farm Lots in the neighbourhood called Pokpoelum, on the northern side of the Island.
Sir John Bowring states that he was induced to offer the Land in question to public competition. [SEL24, 1856, Land Office, 23th September 1856]
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[STERMAN MERIVALE Esq]
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