andraft despatch which if approved should go by Monday's Mail - Mr Merivale has not gone into the details, but I find that he is disposed to take the same view with myself - Mr Deut[sic] should be answered in the sense of the despatch - There are a few wealthy merchants who hold sites at rents equal to one tenth...
...Entere 10. Dent le NOVE Jadis 11 E Elliot Materiale 1 KOLBAL 19 Balatonchem W. In See der Balls Munite in 100 ·Go- the 10090 Shang Hory. 13th Nov/56 draft despatch to the then mercantile value who will be dissatisfied with your decision - which will interfere with the further advantages they have gained by encroachments for which they pay nothing whatever - They may truly say that their enterprise + capital have helped to give the present high value to land at Victoria but the expenditure of public money contributed to this result & the public should not be ousted of its right for the advantage...
M & Nov has also been discussed by the Secretary to the Government to shundlage [sic] the receipt of your letter of the 8th on the subject of the Construction of a Railway in the port of the City of Victoria, Hong Kong, and to inform you that this Council does not see any objections raised in the reasons assigned by you or by other persons per interested, any finding sufficient reason for believing that injustice...
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