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(No. 888.) BIR,

GOVERNOR 8m H. A. BLAKE to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received August 20, 1900.)

Government House, Hong Kong, July 20, 1900. Wrra reference to your despatch, No. 178, of the 8th ultimo,† relative to the question of payment for the value of the public buildings in the New Territory, I have the honour to inform you that I have caused the decision of Her Majesty's Govern- ment, as conveyed in the second paragraph of that despatch, to be communicated to the Viceroy of Canton.

I have, &c.,

HENRY A. BLAKE,

Governor, &c.

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Lord Balisbury concurs in the reply which Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonise proposes to instruct Major-General Gascoigne to return to the Viceroy's request.

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FRANCIS BERTIL.

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(No. 178.)

No. 811.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE.

[Answered by No. 812.]

Downing Street, June 8, 1900.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Major-General Gascoigne's spatch, No. 144, of the 7th April last," forwarding an extract from a despatch from Viceroy of Canton, in which he applies for compensation for the value of the public buildings in the leased territory.

2. I request you to inform the Viceroy that in view of the fact that Her Majesty's Government were put to expense greatly in excess of the value of the buildings in question, owing to the resistance offered to the occupation of the leased territory, they propose to regard the value of these buildings as a set-off against the above-mentioned expenditure, and are not prepared to pay any compensation, nor to allow the Chinese- Government to pull them down and remove the materials.

I have, &c.,

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No. 812.

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

(No. 333.)

GOVERNOR SI H. A. BLAKE to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

(Received August 20, 1800.)

Government House, Hong Kong, July 20, 1900. Wrrn reference to your despatch, No. 178, of the 8th ultimo,† relative to the question of payment for the value of the public buildings in the New Territory, I have the honour to inform you that I have caused the decision of Her Majesty's Govern- meat, as conveyed in the second paragraph of that despatch, to be communicated to the Viceroy of Canton.

I have, &c.,

HENRY A. BLAKE,

Governor, do.

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