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The Cable in question, to the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Administrator.
The Committee considers this purely Chinese enterprise undertaken in face of considerable opposition arising out of the ignorance and superstitions fears of the population of Country Districts through which it has to run, is worthy of the fullest support of the Mercantile Community of Hongkong, and trust that the local Government will also be able to give encouragement and active assistance to a movement so useful and progressive in its character, as the establishment of electric Communication between this Colony and Canton.
I have &c.
(Signed) F. Buckley Jervois Chairman