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anticipated, It is unnecessary that a Chinese Telegraphs Company stated a was about to erect a landline from Canton to Hongkong, and proposed by way of a compromise that the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company should connect at Kowloon, their line with that of the Chinese Telegraph Company. The Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company agreed to this proposition, and laid a submarine cable from Hongkong to Kowloon, permission having been granted by the English Government in a letter from the Honourable the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, dated the 31st May, 1882, in which he stated that the right is reserved to the Government to grant other concessions hereafter, if thought necessary; but that it was not contemplated at the present moment to exercise such right.
The representative of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraphs Company wrote to the Director of the Chinese
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anticipated, It is Excuency
that a Chinese Telegraphs
stated
Company
a
was about to crect
landline from Cantor
to Hongkong, and proposed
by
way of a
Compro
毚
that the Eastern Extension
Australasia and
sia and China.
Telegraph Company should
Connect at Kowloon, their
live with that
of
the Chinese
Telegraph Company. The Eastern Extension Australuxia
and China
Telegraph Company
agreed to this proposition,
and laid a
submarine
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Kowloow, permission having
been
granted by the English
iv a letter from
Government in
the Honourable the Colonial
Secretary of Hongkong, dates
the 31st May, 1882, in which
he stated that, the
r
riglat
is reserved to the Government.
to grant other concessions hereafter, if thought nee
necessary;
but that it was not contemplated
at the present moment to
exercise such right.
the
representitive of
the
Eastern Extension Australazin
and China Telegraphs Company
cable from HongHong to
Korlorn
wrote to the Director
of
the
Chinese
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