16.
C
Hartington
will consider t
the view now
"takon to be reasonable."
with
3.
The extimely Your Lordship that, in
follows: "The sum
7
of teventy thorward
35
pounds starting (E20,000) paid by stongkong
Ao a
•Military
contribution de
little
very
in
" for so thriving a Colony to pay
"
the pressect -
of this Colong,
condition of the Recence of this
it is impossible to commence this work
40
On
strongly recommended by all Chadwick
Sanitary and other grounds, unless
it should be previously arranged
half "half
that
the cost is to be bone by the Imperial
"Government either directly,
of
H.
or in the form
abatement of the Military contribution.
The War
Office (following an of General
inaccurate statement in one
Sargento
letters)
further remarks
av
follower
comparison to the forty five
thorwardin
"ponude sterling (£45,000) per,
annum,
" plus about five thousand pounds =
4
"
sterling (£5,000) per annum
form
Barracks, paid by the Strait.. "Settlements for a sucetter gamison.
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With regard to this point, it
reply
would be probably sufficient to re simply that the Reverce of the Straik Settlement is nearly three times
larger
than the revenue of Hongkong,