CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 55

To H.E. Iir H. Robison

früft.

Hory Kory

15th March/61

Cloud Mann has pist conveyed to me 4. E's meme

on the subject of the appropriation

Wakier's Range, which Y.E.

states it had been

your

intention

to appropriate Aherwise,

I havelter honor to draw

M.I's attention to the accomp ?_

why of a despatch from Ruschen Rusell, conveying the orders of

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the Home Gook that no portion of

the peninsula should be appro-

briated for Colonial or other punkers

matil tha

wants of

the Imperial

foot had been fully

wusioned

I conceive that the fuck

of the Queen having obtained

possession of

in place

Kowloon by treaty,

of

perpetual lease,

p

as

to it

does not alter the views

H.M. Ministers

appropriation; They therefore

on behalf of the Crown, where

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