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ces of the Colony, however, "the Colonial Engineer (Mr Ormsby) is in consultation with the Naval and Military Department,
and, it is hoped, that in the course of a four weeks,
I shall be enabled to transmit further plans showing the further estimates
mrs advanced on the Colonial
12.
Treasury.
Meanwhile, I have
considered it to be
my duty
to place Your Lordship in possession of the present state of this question; so that (if it is thought proper) the Colonial Office
may reopen the
former negotiations
respecting
it with the War Office and the Admiralty. It is presumed that those Departments will act with the
general view in 1875
merai which the
13.
Finally, it will be seen that
the
the main object
of the proposed embankment is to remove, on urgent sanitary, commercial, and other grounds, that "dislocation" of the City of Victoria which was deprecated by the late Lord Derby, while he was Secretary of State for the Colonies. He wrote to the first Governor of Hongkong (Sir Henry Pottinger) in the following terms:- "Her Majesty's Government
concur with Sir Henry Pottinger
No 2 of November
1843.