To say that, 02.2 per cent is a considerable deduction from the sum charged. I have to make them, you may probably agree.
Total 500 490
Superintendent of the Great Northern Telegraph Company to Acting Colonial Secretary
(Copy)
(Signed) Frederick Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Great Northern Telegraph Company, Station Hongkong, the 7th December 1880.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 2nd instant, forwarding copies of reports by the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Acting Auditor General on the cost of laying the telegraph cable between the island of Hongkong and
The Honorable F. Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.