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Mia une in which it was enabled to respond to the great and unusual demands which were made upon it for risoney transports, and supplies, without interfering with the ordinary travel operations, showed a marvellous elasticity in the commercial resources of the Colony.
12. The establishment of Kowloon is great boon to this Colony. It is a portion of the main land opposite about three miles deep by one mile in breadth, which projects into the centre of the Harbour.
From the weakness and inability of the Chinese Government and our inability to interfere directly, the place became the resort of thieves, receivers and Pirates, who preyed upon the Shipping in the Harbour and who were amenable to no practical control - a matter of mere police, therefore, the accession is of great importance, but it is still more importance in Military, Sanitary, and Commercial points of view, as it commands the Harbour and Shipping, possesses good sites for building open to the South West monsoon which Victoria is not,