I wonder how the markets of trusting Annished supplier ofor 187 this ground under convention and its subsequent incorporation 斥 the enormous number of with the Colony are events of the current year, I make no further allusion to them men I not less than 30,000 in all, thus suddenly quartered in the Colony its waters for a period of from 5 to & mouths; the "Band of Hong Kong could not well have afforded the level ground, and "the acquisition of Kowloon under lease from the Chinese provincial Government Consequence. 22 was h necessary As the final cession here 23 But besides that the land was admirably suited and indispensably wanted ofor temporary occupation passing Troops, it was by our in permanence the Commercial required eventually for purposes of the Colony, and I entertain sanguine hope that, if full consideration