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Office will show that there has at different periods been much official correspondence respecting the formation of the Eastern and "Western Praya*" (or quays) of this roadway.
In fact, the two main portions of the City Praya are separated from each other in a most inconvenient manner by the interposition of the Naval ...
* "Praya" is a Portuguese word signifying "the Beach", and was adopted by the first settlers at Hongkong because the Marine Parade at Macao is so called.
... and military buildings; and it has thus long been considered of great importance to re-claim them by an embankment in front of buildings.
It appears by the letter from the Colonial Office to the War Office of June 24th, 1897, that, at that period, the War and Colonial Departments had concurred as to the importance of this work, and that it was desired, that "some agreement should be arrived at by which the work should be carried out conjointly by the Three Departments," (that is, the War Office, the Colonial Office...