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at Labuen.
In view of these advantages my Directors consider that the time has come when the Company should receive sufficient encouragement from the Government, both political and commercial, and if His Excellency the Governor is of the same opinion, I am instructed to say what would be the probable result of such action in this matter.
My Directors are of opinion that the Government should take a favourable view of the proposal for the continuance of an annual subsidy by this Company.
Hong Kong Station 21st Nov, 1892.
Telegram from Secretary, Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, to London.
Manage Hong Kong.
The protection obtained by Eastern Extension consists of a letter addressed to the Chairman by India Office in August 1882 which, after stating that while fully appreciating the importance of Company's telegraphic system and recognising company's claim to Government's favourable consideration,