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Sir John Bowring.

No 80

MINUTE, A

፡

VR

MPMerivale

Alliot MRC Fortescue

857

JUNE

f

Walabouchere

Hong Kong. 4836. Gor.

757

521

18. June 187.

Sir,

I have to

acknowledge the receipt of your

Despatch N.53 of the 21st March reporting

that the cost

off

lighting the Town of Victoria considerably

execeded the estimate

framed

by the late Acting

Surveyor bencial,

and that

you

Rad

in consequence

diminished the

number.

!