CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4] — Page 305

303

application made by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company for permission to comect telegraphically the Island of Hongkong with British Kowloong by a suitable cable to be

#

laid across the Harbour, to connect one end of such cable with the Company's Offices in Honghong, and

to construct a line across British Kowloong to connect the other end with a line of telegraph to be erected

on Chinese territory,

2.

I have also the

honour to forward copy of an application having a similar object from the Canton Houghong Wa Hop Telegraph Company.

3.

Encen

is would

And end

the tre

3.

I am informed by the ~

Agent of the Eastern Telegraph Company that in event of Your Lordship not thinking fit to grant the concession to a Chinese Company that Company is prepared to come

to

arrangements with him for. connecting the line across British Kowloong with the Chinese terminus__

the frontier.

on

4.

The Agent of the Eastern

moveover-

"Telegraph Company has signified his willingness to abide by the conditions imposed on the - Great Northern Company in 1870.

5.

There is a cable across

the Harbour which was laid down

for