Chairman of the Eastern
Extension Australasia
and China Telegraph Company
Limited
making formal application
for permission to land
at
Hongkong a duplicate
Submarine cable connecting
intended to connect
that colony with Shanghai.
Lord Derby proposes, if Lord Granville
sees no
decided objection.
to give permission
to
534
under
the usual conditions
required by the Treasury,
And I am to request
Lord Granville's
that his Lordship's
opinion on the subject
may be conveyed
to
this office at your
early date