CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882 — Page 263

259

the Danish and the Chinese

Companies, and after its conclusion

to prevent its being

Carriedout

Goremment

in

to woch

allowing facigar klograples as for

instance when the Danish

Company was permitted

land

a

Cable between

to

between Wong

persuading

Kong

and

Amoy

and to

carry

the

but it would appear stat they have succused in

the Butest Govenment to refrice

its consent to the establishment of the line

ле

question on

Butish kiritory unless the English Company be ontrusted

with the construction and the

sooching of the line.

The Damak Company finds et diffuell to reconcile this report with the liberality -butterto shown by

the British.

Jonant

its overland-line across

island.

مرکه

however afart

that the Chinese Company

lias not yet obtained the

Con

necessary permission for

the short line across

= structing

Kewloon and

lay

down the

Cable thence to Dictoria, the

Colomal Goremment having

been rustructed to refer the

application