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The Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Co.
Sir,
Hong Kong, 10th November,
In reply to your letter of the 8th November, I transmit the honor to inform you that the Peking Government and the Viceroy Li Hung Chang approve and order that the Chinese Telegraph Department shall take over from the Woosung Stop Telegraph Company the Telegraph line between Woosung and Kowloon; and that
The Honourable
I. Stewart Lockhart, D.S.O.