and Kowloon
and suggesting that
perusal of same would probably
annke
agree.
to allow
reduction in the total
the Company.
With
regard
Start
charged by
to the first point, the
length of cable laid out, about which
the Captain Superintendent of Police
that he cannot make
remarks
out the distance
a cross
by array of
difference
the
2719
estimate 1111 yards
day
that
given to
the maps in his Office more
than 1600 yards and that
appears excessive, I beg to
the length of cable
2 re
and to the Acting Deputy
Superintendent of Police, who attended
the
C
the laying of the cable the Government, by
The
way,
Cable
engine on board
A steamer
L
in the ordinary
way,
which is always used,
by
indicator which being in direct
communication with
machinery
is
the paying
out
marking the length of
therefore,
cable by revolutions. Although a
mistake
could have
occurred
in the
A
410
xf.
to
distance stated.
by
the
Engineer, I nevertheless
referred the remarks
made by the Captain Superintendent of
Police to our
General Agent at Shanghai
and requested him to ascertain from
the Engineer if he also
corroborating
the correctness of his statement
viz.