Government House.
16 November 1906
My Lord,
In continuation of my Secret dispatch of the 27 November 1906 on the subject of negotiations for the completion of a Loan agreement and of a joint working agreement in connection with the proposed Canton-Kowloon railway, I have the honour to enclose for your information and perusal a précis of further telegraphic correspondence with Your Lordship and the Wai-Wu-Pu Minister at Peking on this matter.
1. I have not yet received from Sir John Jordan a copy of the Final Loan Agreement as requested on the 10th instant, but anticipate that it will differ slightly from the draft forwarded to your Lordship in my dispatch referred to above.
2. As soon as I have received from my recent despatch a reply addressed to HBM Consul General at Canton with a view to opening the negotiations for the joint working arrangement as provided for in Article 18 of the draft Loan Agreement - with the new Viceroy Chou Fu, who passed through here on the 11th instant to take up his new post.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
M. Nathan,
Governor.
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