CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 44

Of

42

Soot Offices Victoria Hong Kong

thill arch 1861

I have the honor to ackage Y. E's

reply of yesterday to my

madein letter N° 134

Complaint

12 134 of 8 thirst.

so the occupation

As regards

of Natier's range by the

Military

Authorities at the time of my

aprmption of the administration

A

of

Kowloon,

a chate aus

ausweney to

that of the formal cession to which

I have refered in

my

Y.E., Imust be strangely

letter to

Mitiken

A

there, as

a

I walked

over

troops were then ghartered

day

the

or two preciously

ground in

with the Earl of Elgui.

The

d

company

ground artarily

has been sure abandoned by

the Military, & as it lies beyond

both the present Civil & Military

incampments it is difficult to

undertha

in what way

it cau

he sand to be within the Military

Luies.

Thavchen careful hitherto

to awid all

interference with

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