No. 204.
Hongkong.
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My Lord,
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Government House,
Hongkong, 9th. August, 1906.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Lordship's despatch No.116 dated the 15th. June,
1905, on the subject of the disposal of the War Department
of the sites of Murray Battery and Stanley Cantonment in
the 3rd. paragraph of which despatch I am asked what answer
should be returned to the questions raised in the last
paragraph of the War Office letter of June 7th.
2.
The rates of Premium and Crown Rent which it
is proposed to charge to the Tramway Company for the
various lands required for their undertaking were set forth
in a minute by the Director of Public Works dated the 21st.
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August, 1903, which formed an enclosure to Sir Henry
Blake's despatch No.510 dated the 5th. November of that
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year.
In this minute it was proposed for the Lower Termi-
nus site, which was not then recognized to be, at any rate
partly, within War Department Boundaries, to charge at the
rates
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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