I have the honour to forward ?
you copy of a letter which I Enclosure
have addressed to Sir John
Waldham, Her Majesty's Minister
at Peking; and, with a view to
C
save if possible the delay of
another
year
16th January
r in the commencement
of a work of pressing importance
to the Colony
Colony, and in
which there is a
and unanimous.
favour of
very strong
public opinion,
I would earnestly request that
if you
see no
objection to the
alternative proposals contained
in
1888.
in the letter, you
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you will be good
enough to cause the approval
of
Her Majesty's Government to
be communicated to Sir John
Watcham by telegraph.
2.
After much
correspondence and discussion on the subject of this Lighthouse
of the fact that
and in view of the
the proposals of dir Robert_ Hart referred to in the previous
correspondence have recently -
reference
appeared to have re-
erection on one
other of t
of
di
to