CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 321

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of Docks_ Various projects have at :different times been agitated, - and hopes cxcited but whether

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defects in the schemes themselves,.

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unwillingness on

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part of

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Capitalists to engage in them, -

nothing has been really done

The

subject has been

has been pressed

on the attention of the Government by all the Naval Authorities, and I have only waited a fitting popportunity for aiding is important

a work.

The destruction of the Docks at Whampoa has increased the necessity for a dock Establishment in these

regions, and brightered the

prospects of its giving a good return for Capital _ at the present moment facilities for repairing

there are no

Vessels of large burthen nearer than the Philippine Slands, and

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for

Steamers nearer

than

Surabaya at the Rastern :xtremity of the Island of dim.

I have had the advantage of

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consulting the Admiral with reference to the locality suggested on the South side kland, and

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of obtaining his

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the

general approval of the plans laid rown. We have make it a condition that Her Majesty's Ships shall have a preference