FIDETT
Hongkong.
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FOR
EASTERN
Ne.
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USE
COLONIAL OFFICE
My Lord,
CA
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OS
Government House
REG 24 MAR 06
Hongkong, 23rd.February, 1906.
253
Referring to Mr. Lyttelton'ı
Confidential Despatch of the 24th. March, 1905, transmitt-
-ing for my information copies of correspondence on the
subject of the survey of the Section of the Canton-Kowloon
Railway within British Territory, I have the honour to
inform Your Lordship that Mr. J. C. Bruce, Chief Surveying
Engineer and Mr. P. W. W. Valpy, Assistant Surveying
Engineer, who arrived here on the 16th. June, 1905, having
completed the preliminary survey and final location and
pegging out of the line from Kowloon to the Lo Fu Ferry
in accordance with the instructions given to Mr. Bruce by
Sir John Wolfe Barry on the 10th. May, 1905, and to my
satisfaction, have applied for and received my permission
to return to England by the S. S. "Delhi" which leaves
here tomorrow and takes this Despatch.
2.
Mr. Bruce has, I considered, carri-
-ed out the duties with which he was entrusted well and
expeditiously.
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&C +1
&C.
3.