CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 180

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

borghing the line to be

177

built by

a private Chinese Company under the protiction and control of His Excellency the liceroy of the Quanghing provinces

The prospectis of the Company has been published, in the Hong Kong pussers, and they (the Chinese boy. ) an said to have obtained permission to Extend their lines along the Coast. Youth to Hainau; and north to Swatow.

teould

In connection with this question, the Company venture to point out to your Excelliney the advisability of the Chinese Gorcomment to

take intero Control

Over all

telegraph lines to be built

in

the Empire. This could be best effected by

an Imperial

act declaring Aelegraphs a Government moné,

nopoly,

The same manner

dine

as has been in most countries of Europe. If in this act become Embodied the Concession gran -ted to the Eft. Northern Telegraph boy. There would be the ratifica tion applied for above; whilst

all future troubles which

may.

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