Enclosures)

cstory of h

su previous dufalit

Rab stile under

6. lai Var Office

refermen

The foverer per boter to the holder of intain Water houlage othe witution

ot the fort & resume Repepson fot,

nquiring it for

wharf

denses

nói

Hong Kong,

N9178.

22nd December, 1866.

Governor

Sir Richard Graves Mac Donnell, K.C.B.

to

Right Honorable

The Earl of Carnarvon.

Military Cantonments.

Proposed extension of

at Fletcher's lots and exclusion

of Public from-

Further correspondence as to-

Importance of the question for action taken

and reasons

by Colonial Government.

being engaged

must be needed.

the land has obligation. A negotiation for its purchase

content word comforted of the lower class but only on account of their [right to the occupation of it], but because Pullen's occupation – what was done for the case of the Pului, I trust was not to be taken as a precedent.

To this the Military Authority objected strongly.

at a landing

of Chinese in the immediate vicinity of the Pului Offices, Colonial Chest

348

in the extreme" - As regards the disputed right to this frontage I cannot pretend

abust is right

to say what I much regret this question

must

a

wrong it appears to me,

no doubt

the

thi

really to decide on actually

found whether this Land

"required for Shipping purposes, or whether the having a wharf or wharfage there is so essential for Military Reasons as to counterbalance the undoubted advantages

it would accrue

2. the Pallei

A

6

the other hand. I would therefore suggest that in sending a reply the W.O. it might be said to Lord

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