No. 47.
0905
Government House, Hongkong, 31st January 1902.
177
Sir,
In continuation of Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 2 of the 3rd instant, in which you were informed that Messrs. Chater and Bell-Irving had offered to present to the Colony statues of His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, I have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of a letter from Sir Thomas Jackson, Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, to the Colonial Secretary, in which he states that his Directors have unanimously agreed to allow one of the statues in question to be erected on a portion of the Reclamation which belongs to the Bank.
2. The Gentlemen who have generously offered to present the statues to the Colony will be glad to know when the permission of His Majesty and His Royal Highness has been obtained, and the name of the sculptor selected by them.
3. I transmit a plan larger than that forwarded in the Despatch under reference, which has been prepared by the Director of Public Works, showing the positions which,
Enclosure:
The Right Honourable
Joseph Chamberlain,
M.P.,
&c.