which they declined to pay any portion. Should the Admiralty accept this exchange.
the cost of extension of the traya will be at once reduced to the original estimate, and the prospects of it being carried out will not be so remote as they appear now.
I have not yet received a reply from Admiral Hamilton who has left the Colony for Singapore.
I have the honour to be Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant,
Your Most O...
Enclosure 516 Officer Administering the Government to Vice-Admiral.
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Sir C. O. Government House, 5th March 1887
With reference to previous correspondence on the subject of an extension of the premises of the Naval Yard at Kowloon and to a conversation which I had lately with Your Excellency when we visited the spot, I have the honour to enquire whether it would suit you to exchange the site of the Naval Yard on Hongkong Island for a site of equivalent value next to the Kowloon Naval Yard.
I am induced to ask this question because I understand that the Naval Yard on Hongkong Island urgently requires extension, and there appears Vice-Admiral R. Vesey Hamilton, R.N.