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(b.) The Post Office does not wish to interfere with passengers' baggage carried by train. But if it is rumoured, or has been ascertained, that in defiance of law smuggling of postal matter is being carried on, a suitable arrange- ment will be made for dealing with the difficulty.
(c.) At all stations where trains start a special compartment for the use of post office officials must be provided. Any alteration in the time of departure of trains must be notified to the post office two months before- hand, in order that it may be made generally known.
(d) The railway shall not charge for the compartment reserved for ordinary mails. Should a special car become necessary, the charge for it shafl be based upon the practice in other countries, but must be more than usually moderate. (This shall be made the subject of further negotia- tions.)
(e.) Officials and servants of the post office on duty may come and go by train as they please, and must not be obstracted, but they must be provided with passes. If they have no pass, they shall be treated in all respects as ordinary travellers. The railway will provide passes on application. (f.) At all stations on the railway, the post office may hire any number of storerooms, for which it will pay suitable rent, and set up letter-boxes, which it will itself look after. (The rent to be paid for the storerooms shall be the subject of further negotiations.).
(g.) All charges due in accordance with these regulations by the post office
to the railway, shall be paid in full by the end of each year.
(h.) Any future alterations must be approved of and settled by the Wai Wu Pu
and the Board of Commerce before they come into force. (XXVIII.) The mails of the Macao Post Office shall also be carried by the rail- way free of charge to the first place in Chinese territory where there is * Chinese Post Office.
(XXIX.) The engineers, mechanics, and specialists employed by the railway must be foreigners, but the workmen must be all Chinese. No person may be engaged or appointment for the railway except by the special authority of the Company.
(XXX.) All machinery and materials required by the railway shall pay the usual duty on entering Chinese territory.
(XXXI.) The present agreement has been drawn up in Chinese, Portuguese and English, four copies in each language, or twelve copies in all, identical in their purport. If there is any discussion as to the meaning, or any discrepancy between the Portuguese and Chinese texts, the English text rules.
Signed at Shanghai, this 6th day of the 10th moon, of the 30th year of Kuang Hsü (November 11th, 1904).
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No. 48.
GOVERNOR SIR M. NATHAN to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received 2 p.m., January 11, 1905.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 53.]
At an interview with Barry, Consulting Engineer, British China Corporation, informed him that I adhere to division of profits, inclusive of those from local traffic, between British and Chinese Government, according to cost of construction British and Chinese sections; also informed him that according to calculation made by me local traffic on British section would be sufficient to pay interest running and maintenance expenses on that section. Despatch follows by mail.*
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No. 49.
MR. W. KESWICK, M.P., to MR. G. V. FIDDES.
DEAR MR. FIDDES,
(Received January 13, 1905.)
[See No. 4.]
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3, Lombard Street, London, E.C., January 13, 1905.
I ENCLOSE a copy of the formal letter of acceptance by the Board of the Corporation of the conditions specified in the letter which Mr. Lucas addressed to me on the 16th ultimo,t by direction of Mr. Lyttelton.
I have already submitted to you a form of agreement drafted to give effect to these conditions, and I take it the consideration and settlement of this draft, as far as we can do so on this side, should now be taken in hand.
The Consulting Engineers to be appointed under the scheduled working agree- ment will occupy an important and responsible position, executive as well as con- sultative, and my colleagues and I desire to express our conviction that the firms of Sir John. Wolfe Barry, K.C.B., and Mr. Arthur John Barry, who have been associated with the Corporation from the outset of its operations, and of whose services we have had abundant experience, and who have already studied the Canton-Kowloon railway scheme, as mentioned below, are eminently qualified for the appointment, and should command the confidence of all concerned, including the public, who will be invited to subscribe the Chinese loan.
Their respective firms are:-
Messrs. Sir John Wolfe Barry and Partners, and Messrs. Barry and Leslie.
The survey report and estimates of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, made by Mr. P. T. Somerville Large, M. Inst. C. E., in 1899, were carried out under the instructions of Sir John Wolfe Barry and Mr. A. J. Barry, who revised and reported thereon to the British and Chinese Corporation.
The firm of Messrs. Sir John Wolfe Barry and Partners is so well known as to need no reference, but amongst many important enterprises in the East to which they are consulting engineers or joint consulting engineers may be mentioned the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, the Bombay Port Trust, the Shanghai-Nanking Railway and the harbour works at Chingwangtao, in the north of China.
Messrs. Barry and Leslie have a very wide experience of works in the East, and are consulting engineers or joint consulting engineers to, amongst others, the Southern Punjab Railway, the Bombay Port Trust, the State of Johore, the Shanghai-Naming Railway, and also the harbour works at Chingwangtao. Mr. A. J. Barry is personally well acquainted with China, and is now in that country.
Should Mr. Lyttelton be agreeable to their appointment, draft agreement be at once submitted to them for consideration and report.
suggest that the As regards the negotiations to be entered upon by the Corporation with the Chinese Government, I may mention that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, who, with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank represent the Corporation as joint agents in the East (executive work being more particularly the function of Jardine, Matheson and Company), propose to entrust these negotiations to their Mr. C. H. Ross, now in London, but who purposes leaving for the East on the 19th instant. If agreeable, I should like to introduce Mr. Ross to you.
G. V. Fiddes, Esq., C.B., Colonial Office,
Downing Street.
Yours, &c.,
W. KESWICK.
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