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State's minute.
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It has been difficult to attain
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information of this "Corporation which affects to be a very secret and obscure concern. It was registered on the 27 February last, with a capital of £100,000 in £1 shares, but, to far as can be ascertained up to the present, no capital has been raised. The chairman's name is not known.
And
ar Caffer
benspune confidence
I should recommend that the
: Concerns be let severely alone.
I think we had better
answer as in my first
Minute
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1/7. C.Poi
I aper Sw 1 Jus
Jopine 1677
TELEPHONE N° 839 AVENUE.
THE
CORPORATION LTD
NIGT RIA INVESTMENT
BANKERS
MARTINS BANK LTD
1944
TELEGRAPHIC & CABLE ADDRESS :- ABSTAINING LONDON. A.B.C., MOREING & NEAL & BEDFORD McNEILL'S CODES.
14351
15. Great St Helens
&
London
June 6th.
E.C
$99.
H. M. Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Sir:-
Downing Street,
London, S.
W.
My Directors of The Victoria Investment Corporation having formed the opinion that the territory on the mainland of Kowloon, in China, and the adjacent islands, lately added to the Crown Colony of Hongkong, may probably contain deposits of valuable minerals for which search should be made and being prepared to undertake and carry out such search and exploration at the expense of the Corporation, approach Her Majesty's Government with the request that the Government should grant to the Corporation the exclusive right to prospect for minerals during in the territory in question for the term of five years. During that period the Corporation will agree to thoroughly examine the area, as far as may be practicable, and should payable minerals be discovered shall have the right to mark out for
themselves