The
Cause
2.
of
the delay in
laying
RAFT.
san
the
the water appears to have been due to some hesitation in accepting terms offered by the Colony, and I reported fully to your Lordship on this my letter No 3480 dated
in
Subject 18-12-89.
may
I trust that this question
be settled as
as it is most de early as possible,
*
in the interests of the droops that the whole
of
the "Barracks in the Victoria Cantonment should be supplied with the Tytam Water; and the Colony having provided the necessary facilities for doing so, the Government is evidently reluctant
post pone any longer the sale land in question.
to
3.
in my
of
the
I pointed out, however,
letter No 4298 of the 26-3-90
that, unless the Cantonments be
removed to the vicinity of Causeway Bay, it is desirable that the land in question should be reserved for a Site
for
Additional Troops
•be provided on the
hills, with a view to a possible further increase of the Garrison beyond that at present contemplated-
I have the honour to be,
W.B.
de fe te
W. B. Craster
Colonel on the Staff
for G.O.C China. Absent on Inspn duty.
War Office
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Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston,
Mr. Meade. 2
Sir R. Herbert.
Baron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
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