Excellency the Governor for the requisite permission to lay a
cable from the Chinese mainland
across the harbour and to land
the same at a convenient place on this Colony thereby enabling the Company, to complete direct telegraphic communication between Hong Kong and the Provincial capital of Canton. Although this permission
has been repeatedly refused by
the Government the last refusal being contained in
a letter from the Acting Colonial
Secretary dated 28th February 1888. I most respectfully beg to
point out that no reasons for such refusals have ever been given to the Company, thereby
preventing it from contradicting them in the proper manner, and I venture to express the
hope that if His Excellency the
Governor or the
Colonial Secretary would be pleased to intercede with the Secretary
of State on behalf of
the Company, the Government might be
induced to grant a permission without which the working of
the new line cannot become
satisfactory neither to the Public nor to the promoters of the undertaking.