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confer with the Colonial Office as well. I did not
fail to draw his attention to the fact that settled
and orderly government in the Kwangtung, "unan and
Hupeh provinces was a necessary preliminary to the inception of schemes of such magnitude as he had
described, and that a good administration in these
provinces would do more than anything else to encourage British financiers to assist in the schemes
for railway and port development, which he had put
before me.
10. At present many of these projects are still
in a nebulous state. I have no definite information,
concerning the Thampoa scheme; nor do I know what
feeder lines are suggested to be built in connection
with the Chinese section of the Kowloon-Canton railway;
nor am I at all confident that any of the estimates
put before me yesterday by r. Choy are reliable. In principle, however, and subject to examination of
the various schemes by expert engineers and financiers,
I have no hesitation in expressing my conviction that these projects, if carried out as a whole, would be
of immense benefit to this Colony as well as to the
province of Kwangtung.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
瓮
Governor &c.,