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reduce the delay to a minimum and give prospect of carrying work before the next stormy I should be glad to :ressive by telegram.
season,
My previous despatch
and its enclosures will
have explained to Your Lordship the great benefit which the establishment of this telegraph is expected to effect. I will only add that the fact of the Gap
Rock
Rock bring actually
a
Chinese possession was not lost sight of by Dis
G. Jr.
De Veux, but it was
considered that the work
was so essentially
an
adjunct to the Lighthouse for the erection of which
permission had been
that there was no
given, necessity
for making any special and formal application for the ==
consent of the Chinese
Government in the matter
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