been signed by the Acting Governor and Colonial Treasurer, and it only now remains to erect the necessary boundary stone, to meet the cost of which an item will be inserted in the annual estimate now being prepared.
I hope to have copies of these plans in time to transmit to the Inspector General of Fortifications by the mail of the 22nd July.
I have, &c.
(Signed) Geo. Wynne
Capt. R.E.
True Copy
(Signed) H. George Foley
Col. Sec's Office
Hongkong, 9th July 1859
Sir,
Government Offices, Victoria
Hongkong, 4th July, 1859
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In acknowledging your despatch of May last (date not specified), I have the honour to report that I have consulted General Straubenzee, Colonel Anstruther, Commandant of this garrison, and Colonel Wynne, Commanding Royal Engineer, on the subject of the defences of Hongkong, and that while no undue alarm is felt,
The Right Honorable
Sir Edward B. Lytton, Bt., M.P.,