.Keswick Esq: M.P.
412
March 1902.
R.B.S. 24/3
Mr Johnson 24
Mr Lucas
24t
It is understood that the govt will retain the option to pay the whole or and hat at any time
correspondence
Copy to Gov
my 10344 on draft and 11041 a draft in a short des parisi
Anod 120
12909
90.
copy to Tool 27 Mch.
Sir,
I am directed by Mr Sec: Ch: to ack: the
receipt of your letter of the 18th instant
and to inform you that he agrees to the propos
that if the Govt: of HongKong is not in a
position to pay at once the whole of the
purchase money of the land required for the
new Post Office in that Colony, interest at
the rate of 5% a year should be paid from
the date of purchase on the unpaid balance,
d the purợ
2 The 0.A.G. has now been informed that
the land may be taken over at once or there.
anditims
Off.
I am &c.