Ho
May
were a
be right to point out that the old Market was in existence when the present. Cantonment boom daries were fixed, and thats the public road and landing. place always intended to intervene between these; yet this not aware that
any
Commanding Royal Engineer has Ever made such an application as the one How under discussion. Even at or Subsequently
to the Settlement of the boundaries.
Lu
Should the love proposition be.
the professionals opiniour of Coloncé Lugard,
the prose defences of this quequal to
to Securing Guard Stouse, I see ho alternative but to make
mangements for Erecting the Market Lot (No: 88) mentioned by M. Walker.
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the
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If I be right in my recollection of the position and natures of the property. Considerable public unprovement would ofpected by the substitution of a Good and "Converent building for the disreputable Chinese houses now Crowded there, and the strateg of the water in front of the lot, which Mr. "Walker urges as an objection, in favorable to the filling out Seawards, which would in large and benefit the property, and need
not.
many
I submit undu Correction -
interfere
with the Wellington
Lerwis
way
Battery
on the Eastwards.
But it would be nece
ssary
B Kame
right of access from the Lear to the Market, And this if not inherent
the Lot itself,
Must be Guaranteed litter War Department, and it would be but fair that as the Colonial Government Currenders valuable property elsewhere, the Expener of purchase
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and preparation of this Lot Should be defrayed from the Military Chest.
$ 2000, stated by the
The time.
Acting Purveyor Genes at, I do not look upon an excessive price for the purchase in the present Circumstances
to secure,
And finally it would be
on the for thick
CV
the Colony.
en be necessary
Exstern portion of
ground near the Guard House, then given up. & the War Wepartment, a sufficient space for a public way by which the Prayer,
Parach, when hereafter accomplished, may
a, ar
Marine
form its junction with the present Queen's Rook.
This publie
the
way
Guard Sher
would thus be at town. Stout and yet Commanded addition to which Colonel Luzaidi
distaner from bey it ; apprehension of
tu
a
dangerous Assemblage of
chóng
risters there, would hold much more
if applied to the Queens Road cself, which Ue Southern farve
Guard. Stanse abuts-
Iv
I third Schenn
ON
Entrance
the
y
be
luggeated: -
the recinity,
one of those held
Another Marni ot, Convenient for Market panflaces,
Iway,
I have no doubt be bought
Given - Lay
if a high price be given
by the Romish Priests - but I would leave it to the Military Authoriti, to say whether they ar
withing to bear such expence in Consideration of the attainment
of the...
Mossie Carth,
Rear Huntrose,
Forforshire,
Colonial Secretary
Object -
& Hongkong.
28th September 1857-