TREASURY CHAMBERS,
19 August 1893.
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury desire me to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Knox's letter of the 27th ultimo, Hong Kong 2/4568, enclosing an estimate of Barrack Works required at Hong Kong.
Mr Secretary Campbell Bannerman describes this Estimate as being considerably the smaller of two that have been prepared, and as confined to the additional accommodation that must certainly be provided within the next 8 years.
Its amount is the large sum of £174,735, exclusive of sites, which the Secretary of State assumes will be provided by the Colony without charge, in addition to one half of the estimated cost (£87,367).
The actual expenditure however to be divided between the United Kingdom and the Colony would be diminished by the proceeds of any Colonial Military Crown lands and buildings surrendered by the War Department to the Colony.
Financial Secretary,
WAR OFFICE.