£249
No
The Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company, Limited, Winchester House, 50 Old Broad Street. London, E.C. 23 January 1893
My Lord Marquis,
Rec'd 1858 Red 3 FEB 03
For some years past the question of strengthening the telegraphic communication with the important British Colony of Hongkong has been under consideration, and during the years 1885-1889 made the subject of considerable correspondence between the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Governments of Hongkong and Singapore
The Most Hon'ble. The Marquis of Ripon, K.G., G.C.S.I. &c. Secretary of State for the Colonies-