where we
Meggridges proposed 800 yard rifle range monopolizes all the building sites until we reach the neighbourhood of the Laboratory,
: find ourselves in a circle of 200 Yards radius within which, buildings by stipulation equally impossible. Proceeding further East in vain search of a few hampered square feet to sell, we are immediately surrounded by another circle of 200 Yards
with the magazine for its Centre, and justly enough with equal restrictions against buildings. Finally upon emerging from the
Pale of this second Circle woe,
are already beyond the
Military frontier
of
€2.
Wanchai, having
find that we called Eastern
the Colonial territory come
through the entire
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Military Concession without reaping any benefit.
23. In conclusion and in rectification of paragraph No. of Colonel Bassano's letter No. 4262 of 28th February 1876, I
may add that to be working
220 Coolies seen
the New road and that there
prospect of its being opened out to the Public, than applications began to be made to me by European residents for the areas which Colonel Bassano states lately to be needed. The ground along the new roads Eastward toward the Wanchai Gap, referred to
in the value owing to its distance from the European districts than to the drawback of its situation: which overlooks an excessively objectionable Chinese Neighbourhood and therefore to send thither applicants in search of building sites West of this Laboratory, would be the same as recommending a Gentleman who desired a site for a Mansion in the Parish of St James to go and seek it in
Copies of that of St Giles.
I have the honour to append hereto some correspondence bearing upon some of the points under discussion in regard to the also present repudiation of the cession of 1869 statement of the areas in Hong Kong and Kowloong already preserved to itself by the War Department for purposes other than