This subject formed the subject of correspondence between the Admiralty, the War Office, and this department during the years 1875-1878. No final decision was arrived at, and Lord Berkeley is now anxious to ascertain if possible to settle the question.
3. As regards which was referred to in the letter of the 19th November last addressed by the General Commanding the Troops in the Colony to the War Office regarding the proposed extension on this matter, his Lordship desires me to observe that the world has long recognized it as desirable in the interests of the Imperial forces as well as of the colony that Mr. Chadwick, the Engineer of Toko, lately reported on the Sanitary condition of Hongkong and copies...