Rainfall. Inches
1866. 77.49 1867. 80.80
(of which 53 inches in 5 months
May June July Sept
1868. 88.04 of which 69.30 in 5 months
Rain fell 131 days in the year
of which only 23 in January, February
Mr. Drese
in the 5 wet months,
Rain fell 160 days, of which 28 in
1869. 63.71
(of which 47 over
1870. 56.07
of which 49
Rain fell on 121 days
in the 5 wet mouths 21 days, only 15 in 4 dry months).
ut Letters to be addressed to the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
Trees of the Crown-Agents for the Colonies. Spring Gardens, London: $1152 13 December 1872
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Referring to your letter of the 28 ultimo I have the honor to transmit, to the Earl of Kimberley's consideration, copy of a report and the documents submitted to him by this Lordship's directions respecting the Pokfulam Reservoir at Hongkong.
Mr Rawlinson thinks it would be unadvisable to send an Experienced Engineer to Hongkong, as no one competent to do so is in business out there except at a very heavy cost to the Government, but that if furnished with the information asked for in his report on Pokfulam...
Colonial Office.
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