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anticipated, It is unnecessary that a Chinese Telegraphs Company stated a was about to erect a landline from Canton to Hongkong, and proposed by way of a compromise that the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company should connect at Kowloon, their line with that of the Chinese Telegraph Company. The Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company agreed to this proposition, and laid a submarine cable from Hongkong to Kowloon, permission having been granted by the English Government in a letter from the Honourable the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, dated the 31st May, 1882, in which he stated that the right is reserved to the Government to grant other concessions hereafter, if thought necessary; but that it was not contemplated at the present moment to exercise such right.
The representative of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraphs Company wrote to the Director of the Chinese