less than Fifty thousand dollars and if the competition be Keen it may be much more.
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6 base my regard to Lap Sap Wan upon the rapid progress of the city westward, and upon the great demand for land in the vicinity of the Western Slaughter House and the very high prices ruling upon exchange of ownerships, and in regard to you matee upon the incessant applications received for building sites in that rising and flourishing village, upon the extraordinarily high figures paid at the recent sales of the only ground the Government has ever sold there, viz: Marine Lots no: 29, 30 and 31, as well as 94. His Excellency will no doubt entirely recollect that these lots were in the sea and that after they were bought they had to be reclaimed at very great expense, and that also the purchasers had, as a condition of sale, to build at their own cost a sea wall and 50 feet roadway and that notwithstanding these charges the sites were knocked down at $4,080.
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The proceeds of the Auction sales are however by no means the only profit attending the realization of the project I have the honour to submit. Equally substantial advantages will follow in the spread of houses, shops and factories and in the increase of trade from which will