and with reference to the
4th paragraph of your despatch
I have to observe that no payments on engin-tube were made on account of your Govt. to parties in this
Country except through
Crown Agents
nor.
Date.
No.
1876.
by P.
previous Paper.
tong chong
No. 3218
(Subject.)
DESPATCH.
RECEIVED
17 MAR 1276
Military Cantonments of Hong Kong
72
issue of instructions from War
Requests issue
Office to local Military Authorities with reference to
WO
19 20 21 17 14 7 76-11 & 8 (19)Fur Reade
(Minutes.)
I gather from this despatch that
the "final" decision overruled in the last para-graph but has never
been
the Naval Office at ; and from paragraph
4 of this despatch that until lately the Governor
has affirmed
that the War Office has forgotten
The Commanding Royal Engineer
has displayed
plain courtesy in allowing his differing sentiments
so roughly and so suddenly to break in
upon the almost decennial harmony 'twixt Civil Departments,
or
the
Coke to War Office with reference to their