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the British territory.
at Kowloon.
It is quite true that whatever might be the formal regulations such a subject; His Excellency, in the event of any special Public emergency would not hesitate to put them on one side, and Command the course of action required if the emergency of the case required it.
Nevertheless, there is such an evident and continuous inconvenience to Her Majesty's service occasioned by any regulation which impedes the freest intercourse between the Authorities of not merely neighbouring but actually adjoining districts, especially in all matters which relate to the conservation of the Peace and detection of Criminals, that His Excellency considers the time has arrived for making some improvement in the rules which are at present supposed to exist.
A delay of three days ends in a reference, which only ends in communicating to third parties at Canton, who have then to communicate second-hand with the Chinese Mandarins at Kowloon, requires some very strong argument to support it in preference to a direct communication with the same parties in 40 Minutes.
Under these circumstances, His Excellency requests that you take the subject into consideration,