396
Ciste
REC
C.0.
18161
REG 11 SEP 31
3 St. James' Square.
10th September, 1891.
of 570/40.
my
17608
Sir,
am directed by the President of the Board of Agriculture to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th. instant in which you state that Lord Knutsford has abandoned the idea of commencing the Grigonometrical Survey of Hong Kong this
year.
With reference to your enquiry as to the probable duration of the Survey
and the details of the
estimate of the cost, I am to
enclose a memorandum prepared.
The Under Secretary of State,
for the Colonies.