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"rapid growth of the population in the first, and the lenn- ency to still further's
future, render some ddition to the area under British occupation most clesira Be if not absolutely necessary, both for the establishment I industries and for the erection of devetting houses with lue regard to sanitation. The water supply, excellent as it
for existing requirements, cannot be greatly
greatly increased on the island, as most of the principal streams and callee. my areas have already been laid under contribution, and ce bulk of the fresh water obtainable has been impounded. For is it advisable that so large a city
· large a city as Vectoris should be :stirely dependent on outside sources for every arkiele Food, when by the acquisition of the proposed strip of erritory at the back of the Nowolom perimenta lund for the troduction of vegetables
and the rearing of cattle would be krovided.
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The city of Howlons, which is under Mandarin rule, tuated less than half a mile from the frontier, and actually. within the evalers of the harbour, had always feroved efuge for Chimere criminals, and the gambling hello, epeatedly established there in defiance of protects from the olonial Government, have been a prolific source of trouble. t is not too much to say that this place, with its encou_ agements to vice and dishonesty, addo,
normorialy to The tack of preserving
order and good government among The large Chimice population of the Colony. The inclusion & this small eity within British foundaries would greatly assent in the defection and repression of crime, and would slove, therefore, prove an important benefit.
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proposed quili recently, in a Memorial to the t of Le Hung - Chang, the ex- Vicerry of Chibli, to establish chinese naval kration at Mirs Bay, and thoug. this traject has for the present fallen out of sight, it may any time be revived. My Committer think it is only
Necessary
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