CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 265

238

stating

that it is

contemplation

again

in

to establish telegraphic

communication between the Philippine

Ixlands and the Chinese Coast,

and

renewing

the application made

in 1870 for leave to land the Cable

at Hongkong,

with the

You

to be there connected

general telegraph systems?

will bear in mind that

Her Majesty's Government

in 1870 ther

refused

to a similar

to accede to a

request,

on account

to be

"of the exclusive privileges

Company;

granted to an individual but His Lordship observes that the

manner mer

present application in litte provider for a monopoly for forty I am therefore to request

years;

that

you

Beach to

will move Sir lll. Hiethy

Lord Salisbury

inform

whether he adheres to the decision

arrived at and

expressed in the

Colonial Office Letter of the 18th

of