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mush mouthless
undutakon
he
by forement
of the land is to be sold
at all.
I therefore have
Kowloon out of
both sides
of the gruent calculation.
Aux how I may
Erotice an
snor into which,
I think, you have fallen
in June
letter upon the
subject of public works, and which appears to me to
spring from
a
want
of
appreciation of the exceptional character of Hongkong. You
state that the Duke
of Newcastle has directed
you
to bring to
my
notion the
large expenditure which has
taken place during 1880-2
on
the public works because although there is
no
better
"way of disposing of surplus
revenue than
on works of
"public utility the amount of " that expenditure is in
a
great
"degree regulated by the amount
"of surplus
which
"gives
means" he
"it in some degree
"furnishes
a
other grounds, I apprehend, that
public works are undertaken
because there is a
surplus,
which,