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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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