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to Kowloon

мо

the settlement

intelligence of which has reached

the Colony up to this date; but however this may be, the fact is evident that less than eleventh of the Estimate for the

Wh

year has been realized and that

Premium

on land will not

Cenceforward be so profitable a

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25.

of

Revenue

as it has been.

Turs much as to Receipt;

as to disbursement I would note that the surplus in past years has not been unused, principally owing to the inadequacy of the Surveyor General's Department

for undertaking the necessary Public Works; the money therefore has remained in hand

should

say

Cor

at interest) but it has not the less been forestalled and

unavailable and is still so.

26.

And here I may call

attention to the memorandum above enclosed of

Public Works proposed and certainly required,

and especially to the Mint and to the two jetties in Victoria and

Stone Cutters Island of the

Mint I would only

say

-

thank the

benefit to be derived from it, to par

as I can see

see,

though I admit I