First, dated 11th October last, — W.42 asking me to report the probable cost and time required for putting down junks loaded with stones; and the other, dated 5th November last, asking to be furnished with an estimate of the cost of obstructing the entrance permanently, by a rough stone breakwater, such as is suggested in the letter from the Chamber of Commerce, enclosed in despatch of 8th July last. W.M.232.
Enclosure I
2 February 1867
196. In reply to the first question, I have the honour to forward a copy of a report from the Harbour Master, in which he estimates the cost of junks at from $150 to $990 each, and that of stones at $30 per cargo, but he is unable to state what the whole cost would be, not knowing how many junks would be considered necessary.
In a later report, however, from the Commanding Royal Engineer, which will be found amongst the enclosures to this despatch, he estimates the ...