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a similar nature.
those of which are
constantly recurring, involving much correspondence between the Colonial Government and the Military Authorities, -- without (in a great number of cases) any
satisfactory settlement being arrived
at.
4.
As examples of such questions I may mention that of the grant of a site for a Military Hospital on shore, alluded to in the above correspondence, for which the Military Authorities have expressed their readiness to make adequate compensation either pecuniary or otherwise; and that of the advance of the Line of Defence at Kowloon, on which many complicated and long disputed questions depend for settlement.
If this project were once carried out a final arrangement...