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delay.

lav

consequence

direcied

to request that you will submit this communication to His Excellency The Governor, with the Major General's earest Recommendation that the requisite measure be adopted for accomplishing this important object before the 1st of May next, the earliest period at which the teglen

expected to reach

Rifles

Can

Hongkong.

be

The Majer General takes this opportunity of Suggesting to lbis Excellency, the expidioncy of having a small Military post, consisting of Serjeant and 19 mon, between Victoria and Stanley, the establishment of which would toud materially to preserve the interior of the Island frome

from those visitations of Banditti

no of that have hitherto been of

frequent

с

Phere is

nothing

Majer General's opinion,

to

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the

well

calculated to deter such marauders

as the constant passing to and fuc

of armed parties belonging to the Garrison; and if His Excellency will only cause such a post to be constructed, the Major General will have sheds erected in its vicinity, under which. Proops starting

in the

moming from either boteria or Stanley, can take shotter half way,

complete their march in the evening.

len

arcangement which would Render the intercourse between the two-

places a matter of comparative

the hot weather.

even in

laze

The