Confidential.
In reply quote M.C.O. 18897 RECE 21 OCT 86
Admiralty, 470 19th October 1886.
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I have laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 12th inst. forwarding a copy of a Despatch from the Officers Administering the Government of Hongkong regarding the proposed blocking of a portion of Kellet's Bank by piles, together with a copy of the Colonial Office reply of the 11th inst. respecting the alternative proposal of the Colonial Defence Committee to block this Bank by sinking Junks loaded with Stones.
In reply, I am commanded by their Lordships to request that you will state that Mr Secretary Stanhope...
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tur huache, I su Her the airman. of Ite 8458 state (5.6.86) Hungking Chamber of Commerce that "at was no auld h aus tu dis 116 very great outlay." despatch of 11.10.86 an Estimate of the C.O. has asked for cast of creating an obstruction by sinking junks filled with stones. Would it be desirable now to cast for an Estimate of the cast of the permanent breakwater, in order that they may be able to compare them.
4.11.86. G.F. Clarker.
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The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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