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we regret that we have apparently misread the documents sent with your letter of 26th February, as we were under the impression that we were asked to report not only on the preliminary reclamation for the Railway at Kowloon, but also on the completed scheme. This we now see from His Excellency's letter is not the case, and we therefore need not trouble you to apply to the Admiralty for a large plan of Hung Hom Bay.

We note that it is now proposed to continue the preliminary reclamation until it abuts on Messrs. Blackhead and Company's Kowloon Marine Lot No. 81, in accordance with the revised plan received with the Chief Resident Engineer's General Letter, No. 4, dated 1st June. On receipt of this plan we were somewhat at a loss how to deal with it, as the plan differed considerably from the plan received from the Public Works Department accompanying your letter of 26th February, and we accordingly wrote to Mr. Eves in our General Letter, No. 11, dated 5th July, as follows:-

"(5) We have just received your General Letter No. 4 and accompanying trac- ing, and notice that the reclamation scheme shown on the latter is of considerably greater magnitude than the preliminary scheme shown on the plan (copy of which I enclose) prepared by the Director of Public Works, dated 27th December, 1905, and approved by us with the addition of 200 feet in a southerly direction, in our letter to the Crown Agents, dated 25th May, 1906.

"We should, therefore, be obliged if you would let us know whether you have conferred with the Public Works Department on this matter, and have obtained sanction for the alteration."

This extension of the preliminary reclamation includes our proposal to extend the scheme for a distance of 200 feet in a southerly direction, which we considered would be sufficient for the actual purposes of the railway, but we highly approve of the scheme of extending the reclamation another 1,000 feet as now proposed, and we only refrained from suggesting it at the time in view of the increased cost.

For Sir John Wolfe Barry and Partners,

We are, &c.,

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No. 288.

J. WOLFE BARRY.

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SIR,

No. 287.

CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received September 19, 1906.)

Kowloon-Canton Railway.

Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., September 18, 1906. We have communicated to the Consulting Engineers the despatch* from the Governor of Hong Kong concerning the reclamation required for the Kowloon terminus of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, which was sent to us with your letter of the 29th of August (No. 31357),† and I now have the honour to enclose a copy of their reply.

have, &c..

E. E. BLAKE.

(Confidential.)

SIR,

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.

[Answered by No. 297.]

Downing Street, September 20, 1906. WITH reference to your note of September 12th* and to previous correspond- ence, I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to forward to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir E. Grey, copies of three despatches from Sir M. Nathan with regard to railways

in China.

2. Lord Elgin would be glad Sir E. Grey would cause him to be furnished with any information that may be obtainable with regard to the point raised in paragraph 4 of the despatch of August 10th.

I am, &c.,

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C. P. LUCAS.

No. 289.

Enclosure in No. 287.

Messrs. Sir JOHN WOLFE BARRY AND PARTNERS to CROWN AGENTS. Kowloon-Canton Railway. British Section.

GENTLEMEN,

21, Delahay Street, Westminster, S.W., September 10, 1906. WITH reference to your letter of 4th instant, enclosing copy of a letter from His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies,

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received September 21, 1906.) [Copy of Enclosure to Governor, September 25, 190€. (Confidential.)

Secret. L.F.

The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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