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Reference :-
TPLLC.O.537
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that the Chinese Government contemplate
eventing
2.
of these
in the vicinity of Mongkong.
nothing farther
I have heard no
rumours
"Your Lordship
Since Faddressed
on the 22nd of April.
last, and Mafor-General Rigby
Barker, to whom I showed the
Correspondence transmitted in
your despatch, informs me that he has
received no information
or report
that Her Majesty's Government would
with favour
not view
a
line of
do
railway having its terminus
near Hong Kong
as Kowloon.
I am strongly disposed to think
that a
railway
between Canton and
Kowloon would materially benefit
this Colony.
It would
unquestionably
increase the value of property in British Kowloon, which would, however,
be diminished proportionately with the distance of the terminus from the neighbourhood of that locality.
whatever
on the subject
Since his
arrival in
S.
I somewhat
the Clony.
regret
to find it
stated in
Meade's
confidential letter to the
Foreign Office of the 30th
of June,
Secret 542
instead
of discouraging,
should in
that
every
the last paragraph of the
But I venture to express an
opinion that Her Majesty's Government
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