Chinese Telegraph Company asking that an agreement should be entered into between the two Companies, respecting the connection of their respective telegraph lines at Kowloon.
In his reply the Director of the Chinese Telegraph Company was very evasive, urging that no arrangement could be made until the Swatow Colonial Government had given him a decisive reply to his application for a concession to land submarine cable at Swatow.
Other attempts have been made to come to an agreement with the Chinese Telegraph Company, but the Director of that Company has in every case evaded a direct reply.
In an agreement made at Shanghai on the 24th March 1883, between the Imperial Chinese Government and the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, the Chinese Government recognised the right of the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company to connect their line with that...