will approve of
this temporary arrangement which involves an outlay of one Guinea per day for which provision will be made in the Supplementary Estimates. And I may repeat what I have before stated, that I shall take care that the total
outlay
on the development of Kowloon, both
for
Establishment
and public works, does not exceed
the sum
realized by the sale of
land in that district.
The Governor
I have the honor to be
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's Most Obedient Servant,
Mountstuart Elphinstone Hobhouse
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preliminary arrangements for settling
the compensation to be awarded
to those who may be dispossessed. Chinese occupied other lands;
Arrangements
were also made
in accordance
with the Convention of Peking,
regarding the sale of Land at Kowloon.
As regards the balance
it was fatal to any
reference being
made to the Land Board.
And on the pressing
Mr. Williams
as
bet Mr. Cardwell has sanctioned the employment proposed.
30 proposed. proved.
Wohlber
[The Chinese, I had no doubt, are up to various
species of fraud - but pains must be taken to invite pitch false claims peremptory condemnation can only in that High Court of the Government.]
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such a matter how