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should be made to Foreign Governments to ascertain how far they will be disposed to cooperate in the erection and maintenance of such Lights.
regards the Return which
As regards
it is proposed to obtain the number and tonnage of vessels sailing from and arriving at Ports in China,
that the Governor of Hong Kong may be instructed to furnish so much of the Return as applies to the Port of Hong Kong in accordance with the enclosed form
In addition to the above Return
It is necessary
that my Lords should be in possession of definite information from Hong Kong as regards the cost of the Lights to be established, and of their future maintenance, in order to determine what amount of Fund would
be sufficient to pay for their establishment & maintenance.
My Lords direct me to point out
that the Dispatch from the Lieutenant Governor accompanying your letter does not give the information regards the proposed Lights in so full a manner as was requested in the letter from this Department of the 16th April last, and their Lordships are therefore not in a position to make any accurate calculation on their probable cost of erection & maintenance therefore to request that you will move the Duke of Newcastle to cause the above letter to be again brought under the notice of the Governor of Hong Kong, to instruct him to obtain a full Report, as requested therein, from some competent persons on the plan proposed in Capt