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application made by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company for permission to comect telegraphically the Island of Hongkong with British Kowloong by a suitable cable to be
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laid across the Harbour, to connect one end of such cable with the Company's Offices in Honghong, and
to construct a line across British Kowloong to connect the other end with a line of telegraph to be erected
on Chinese territory,
2.
I have also the
honour to forward copy of an application having a similar object from the Canton Houghong Wa Hop Telegraph Company.
3.
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3.
I am informed by the ~
Agent of the Eastern Telegraph Company that in event of Your Lordship not thinking fit to grant the concession to a Chinese Company that Company is prepared to come
to
arrangements with him for. connecting the line across British Kowloong with the Chinese terminus__
the frontier.
on
4.
The Agent of the Eastern
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"Telegraph Company has signified his willingness to abide by the conditions imposed on the - Great Northern Company in 1870.
5.
There is a cable across
the Harbour which was laid down
for