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discussed in previous correspondence would be as Signal
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Station for Wireless Telegraphy. Its geographical position
renders it a point of the utmost importance in regard to
the approach of typhoons.
4.
If the enterprise in which Messrs. Wilkinson
and Newman propose to engage should prove to be even
remotely as profitable as they anticipate, it would, I
venture to submit to Your Lordship, be not unreasonable to
require the payment of a moderate Royalty on shell or
Guano in return for the protection afforded by Great
Britain.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
arcz
Governor,&c.,