Colonies to issue hereafter such instructions in the matter, as he may consider fitting, when the whole case is before him.
11. If His Lordship should decide, that serious detriment to Imperial interests might be occasioned by opening the passage in question - as serious in fact, as to make it advisable to forego the advantages intended to be thereby secured to the general Public, it will be easy to give up the ground hereafter to the Military authorities on repayment of the expenses actually incurred by the Colony. Then property will certainly not be held in any unfriendly or hostile hands, and it is clear that the two Secretaries of State can completely control its ultimate disposition.
12. Meantime as His Excellency has granted a site, near the intended pier to the Regatta Club for their new boat house in lieu of that removed in consequence of the extension of the Praya, and as the Public are consequently all the more interested in the projected communication with the beach, His Excellency trusts that it may be found quite practicable to leave Kowloon, as in many similar cases, open.