WB & L(127)--25231-8000-4-92
Hongkong.
No. 1858
Office or Individual Sender) Australasia & China Tel Co
Date. 1893 23 Jan
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Label any 2019 disposed of 18199 Treas cons
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(Subject.) RECE C.O. 1858 DOMESTIC.
Recd 3 FEB 93
Telegraph Communication question of the
Suggests reconsideration duplicating the connection with Labuan, free from any foreign interference.
(Minutes.)
M. F. F. [M. Fraser or M. Fleming, likely] See unfinished minutes on 247298734.
The Tel. Co. offers to cut out Spanish cable direct from Borneo to Hongkong, and to lay their Territon, if necessary, it seems to me desirable to give them the desired monopoly.
(The terms of the Egyptian agreement annexed seem very liberal to the Govt. S.W.9.376. and in the case of an absolute monopoly at Singapore Hayting, I would stretch as far as possible in order to get a cable to Borneo CPE 3Jch)
I cannot see that he has any way of getting around the existing contract...