CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 300

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

the Company's property in the Colony

" Typhoon - It is late in the season for

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me to report an incident of this third, but nevertheless lake as it is, we had the outsid

" of a typhoon visit us yesterday, and twe " for the unsectcome visitor putting

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appearance in " have

heavy

daylight, Hongkong

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tale of disuster to tell, as it is " the damage afloat is something berielle " while the Praya has escaped as by a mirad " In front of your Works the sea was comun " in huge.

Coping and but for the coping stones, woul " praya, " have been in the yard - Luckily for us the " wind shifted round to the South Cast, wher

lt aves over

the

stones

"Hongthing is fairly protected by Stills, otherw " had the wind conturiced from North West & Nor " Cast for a little longer Jam sure the Praya u

" front of us would have gone. The coping star

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" trifling damage Requesting respectfully that the necessary step

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be tather for expediting the completion of the Wall, before the next Typhoon season comman when otherwise irreparable damage might to

done.

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