License
the
Free
were granted
Ordinance, it might be purchased to
limit the rights to
to them under
a term of years.
The question in their minds is mixed up with a
dispute we have had with them.
0.0
dispute
to the necessity for taking out licenses for cables which have been landed in certain colonies without formal licenses, but which they claim they have a
right to retain forever.
We referred the matter to LO who partially supported the Company's contention.
We had better send their views in writing. Send copy (without enclosures) to
Robson. They may wish to make representations to the E. E. Tel. Co. for any
objections they may have.
For Lane
Japan
No. 364.
Hongkong.
Sir,
106
3937
Government House,
Hongkong, 10th October, 1904.
I have the honour to bring the following circumstances to your notice.
2.
Previous to the leasing of the New Territories to Great Britain, there existed a house on the border between this Colony and Chinese Territory at Kowloon in which the wires from Canton of what was then known as the Chinese Government Telegraph Administration met and were connected with those of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company from Hongkong.
3.
Upon the incorporation of the New Territories in the Colony of Hongkong in 1899, the question of the maintenance in British Territory of the length of Telegraph line from the new frontier to the old boundary was raised, and Sir Henry Blake suggested that the local Manager of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company should approach the Director-General of the Imperial Chinese Telegraphs with a view to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company acquiring the length of line in question.
4.
This was done, and in June, 1899, the Manager
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
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