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I have the honour to be, My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble servant,
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Administrator:
OBSERVATORY, HONGKONG,
C. O.
19440
RECP
REG? 7 NOV 81
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY TO GOVERNOR SIR J. POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.
DOWNING STREET, HONGKONG. No. 38.
7th April, 1881. SIR,--With reference to the Observatory which it is contemplated establishing in Hongkong, I have the honour to forward to you a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Meteorological Office, requesting that copies of the records taken at the Observatory should be regularly sent to that Office in London.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
KIMBERLEY.
Governor Sir J. POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.,
&c., &c.,
&c.
No. 615.
THE METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE TO THE COLONIAL OFFICE.
METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE, 116, VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, S.W., 29th March, 1881.
SIR,--I am directed by the Meteorological Council to inform you that they have learnt with great satisfaction from the Kew Committee that it has been determined to establish a self-recording Meteorological and Magnetic observatory at Hongkong, and that the Council take this opportunity of expressing their desire that copies of the records shall be sent regularly to their Office.
I have, &c.,
(Signed,)
ROBERT H. SCOTT, Secretary.
B. G. W. HERBERT, Esq.,
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
No. 69.
THE ACTING SURVEYOR GENERAL TO THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 14th April, 1881.
SIR,--With reference to the Observatory proposed to be erected on Mount Elgin in the Kau-lung peninsula, and for the construction of which a sum of $10,000 has been provided in the Colonial Estimates for the current year, I have, with a view to the preparation of the plans, specification and estimate for its erection, searched the records of this Office, but have not been able to find information as to the accommodation to be provided in the proposed Building. I have the honour, therefore, to request the instructions of His Excellency the Governor as to the nature of the work to be undertaken in the Observatory and the accommodation to be provided therein.