CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 98

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16.

C

Hartington

will consider t

the view now

"takon to be reasonable."

with

3.

The extimely Your Lordship that, in

follows: "The sum

7

of teventy thorward

35

pounds starting (E20,000) paid by stongkong

Ao a

•Military

contribution de

little

very

in

" for so thriving a Colony to pay

"

the pressect -

of this Colong,

condition of the Recence of this

it is impossible to commence this work

40

On

strongly recommended by all Chadwick

Sanitary and other grounds, unless

it should be previously arranged

half "half

that

the cost is to be bone by the Imperial

"Government either directly,

of

H.

or in the form

abatement of the Military contribution.

The War

Office (following an of General

inaccurate statement in one

Sargento

letters)

further remarks

av

follower

comparison to the forty five

thorwardin

"ponude sterling (£45,000) per,

annum,

" plus about five thousand pounds =

4

"

sterling (£5,000) per annum

form

Barracks, paid by the Strait.. "Settlements for a sucetter gamison.

کی

P

With regard to this point, it

reply

would be probably sufficient to re simply that the Reverce of the Straik Settlement is nearly three times

larger

than the revenue of Hongkong,

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