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been placed lights for the convenience of steamers plying by night.

The local Authorities have undertaken considerable portion of the such works as harbour improvements and lighting of rivers and Coast to facilitate navigation.

Military Authorities are said to have some plan in contemplation for lighting the river. Such a plan might have beneficial results as tending directly to the suppression of piracy, but it cannot be said that it is at all called for by the necessities of navigation. A light will probably be put up at the same buoy at Broque Point.

Having now gone through the particulars, I proceed to make a few general remarks bearing on the subject: Knowing the monetary difficulties of the Government, I have never attempted to prevent the Authorities from diverting the fund to other uses; knowing that temporary pressure caused them to avail themselves of that fund when once they began to understand the light in which foreigners viewed it, I have frequently had occasion to talk of the matter both at the Toung-le-Yamen and with the provincial Officials, and I have ever found them not only ready but very willing to assist in carrying out suggestions in the manner in which they were made; and from which they have received benefits in the past, they will of their own accord prepare and furnish the means.

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Ques Tonnage alone river.

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been placed lights for the convenience of steamers plying by night. The local Authorities have undertaken considerable portion of the such works as harbour improvements and lighting of rivers and Coast to facilitate navigation. Military Authorities are said to have some plan in contemplation for lighting the river. Such a plan might have beneficial results as tending directly to the suppression of piracy, but it cannot be said that it is at all called for by the necessities of navigation. A light will probably be put up at the same buoy at Broque Point. Having now gone through the particulars, I proceed to make a few general remarks bearing on the subject: Knowing the monetary difficulties of the Government, I have never attempted to prevent the Authorities from diverting the fund to other uses; knowing that temporary pressure caused them to avail themselves of that fund when once they began to understand the light in which foreigners viewed it, I have frequently had occasion to talk of the matter both at the Toung-le-Yamen and with the provincial Officials, and I have ever found them not only ready but very willing to assist in carrying out suggestions in the manner in which they were made; and from which they have received benefits in the past, they will of their own accord prepare and furnish the means. Page 211 Ques Tonnage alone river. CL ... --- No change of original order is made as the original text, although containing OCR errors, is still readable and coherent. Some minor corrections were made according to the rules, such as fixing "supprepion" to "suppression", "prefaure" to "pressure", "camping" to "carrying", "suggestions manner" to "suggestions in the manner", "prepure" to "prepare". The original format and structure are largely preserved, with paragraph breaks maintained as closely as possible to the original. The output is in HTML format using for paragraphs.
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