DRAFT.
HONGKONG
Confidential
Governor
Gov.
16376 Hong Kong
Ind
Downing Street
September 1892.
593
SIR W.ROBINSON.K.C.M.G.
Mr.
&c. &c. &c. MINUTE.
Mr Lucas 1 Sept.
Mr. Fairfield. 1 Sept.
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Brumston.
Mr. Meade.
Buron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
Im
Cuyla brace No 60775
Sir,
I have the honour to
acknowledge the receipt of your
confidential despatch of the 13th
of July reviewing the financial
condition of Hongkong and showing
the necessity of raising a loan to
meet the cost of certain Public
Works.
2. You will have learnt
from my predecessor's despatch
No.200 of the 29th of July that.
you are at liberty to take steps
for raising a loan to an amount
not exceeding £200,000, and you
will also have learnt from my
telegram of the 29th ultimo that
the suggestion made in the 15th
paragraph of your despatch now
under acknowledgment, to the ef-
fect that application for the
money should be made to the Pub-
lic Works Loan Commissioners, can-
not be entertained.
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