Enclosure 4.
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The Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited
10th July, 1883
Sir,
I have the honour on behalf of the above Company to submit to Your Excellency the following particulars of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company's position, with regard to the telegraph line from Swatow to Canton.
Your Excellency will recall that in 1870 a concession was granted by the Imperial Chinese Government to Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong,