of Hong Kong will take twelve months including time of travelling it is estimated that the cost of Regimental Pay and allowances for Quarters, and passages out and home, for a party of one Officer and twenty men will amount to about £ 4.200. In this sum £ 2000 is taken for
passages per
P. and O. Steamers.
Ybe believes that the Admiralty have
contract with the P. and O. Company
in which case the passages
probably be less than ₤ 2000.
would
the
total cost of the Survey would therefore probably be about £8000 without Admiralty and War Office assistance e
the
basis of
the extent and upon scale noted in his memorandum
of the 26th. August, 1890, a copy of which has been furnished for Lord Amutsford's information.
At this late period it is almost
party out this The Observers he considers
too late to send a year.
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should have been at Hong Kong last month and the Surveyors at the
end of this.
Ame
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Charles Wood
for the Secretary