should be completed during the dry season, and (as they were included) and approved in the Estimates for the current year by the Surveyor General, proposes commencing early in November and I therefore mention this that Your Grace may not regard the item of Sanitarium, as profitably admitting of any further retrenchment.
8th August will have apprized Your Grace of the many difficulties encountered by Government in dealing with the Colonial property at Kowloon, and the impossibility of inducing the tenants to complete their share of the Sea Wall and reclamation necessary to render available the land leased in 1864.
7. Whatever those difficulties may have been at the moment when I transmitted that despatch to Your Grace, they have been since increased tenfold by the extensive damage, which the violent Typhoon of the 8th instant has caused to the Sea Wall at Kowloon, and a considerable portion of the reclaimed land there.
I do herewith report on the subject from the Surveyor General, whence Your Grace will learn that almost the whole Sea Wall has been destroyed, except probably the actual foundation. I say "probably" for
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necesary to render available the land. leased in 1864.
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