Communications between Saigon and Hong Kong - It will also facilitate communication between China and Annam), and tend to develop commercial intercourse between the Archipelago and the adjacent Coast.
The necessary cable being manufactured, and will leave England in four or five months' time.
I have therefore to ask that Her Majesty's Government will have the goodness to instruct the Hong Kong Government to grant to the Company the requisite permission to land the Eastern Cable at Hong Kong.
I have the honour to be,
Lord,
Your most obedient servant,
Montgomerie,
Chairman.
DRAFT.
The Secretary,
To the Treasury.
MINUTE.
Lord Derby,
Mr. Lucas 26.
Sir R. Herbert,
Mr. Meade.
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston,
Mr. Ashley.
Mo Hong Kong
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27 July. 83.
I am directed by the Earl of Derby to request you to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company have applied for permission to land at Hong Kong one end of a Submarine Cable connecting that Colony with Saigon.