CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12] — Page 252

H

expensive suit either in this

Country

Mauritius.

―

and

that although there are two

Houses

upon

the Land now

let for $1560

year,

a

£325

a

the lease of the larger

is about to terminate, when, according to the Report of the Surveyor feneral,

will require

and

an

it

immediate

large expenditure to

make it safe and habitable.

The foverna likewise states that House property in Itong

Kong

is liable to rapid

deterioration

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Houses in the vicinity in

question not being adapted for Mercantile purposes, the only persons by whom they are likely to be inhabited are the officers of

officers of the local Sovernment, scarcely any of

whom receive Salaries

which would enable them

to occupy

a

houses paying

ground rent of from Liso to £300 per

these cir

Bonham

annum

cumstances

Under

Loverna

suggests that he showed be authorized to

n

account acco

of

reduce the rent

the humidity of the

glimate,

And that the

Houses

&

Mess

Aegan's Land to £150 a

year