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useful and permanent it must be proceeded with steadily and with
induce haste.
Preliminary correspondence, surveys, and designs, being practically all
completed houring bee tation, there is
ted now, and several contracts
wvery
reason
to believe that the rate of progress, especially in the approaching dry weather, will mesech exceed the previous rate; but even this has, & submit, been as we have billed against
£
satisfactory
s
d
the Colonial Oefence 10,484 + 5 + 9
Contribution
In addition to which work has been done, & and payment reserved ( to the value
of
Done, but not yet billed,
about.
1,366 * 17"
"0
} 1,500·0′′ 0
Represcuting a total off 13, 851-2-9
whichs
which, I may add, docouot include any
Imay
payment for the purchase of the Steam Launch Sapper of which the cost has been trauferred to Imperial charge.
In addition to the above the War.
e charge of £₤3,900
Oepartinent has incurred a che
privcipally for alterations to cristing work
If approved designs for Fly Point, Stonecutter Nest Cutral, a new 64
be soon
pounder Battery recently ordered, the Lye moon Redoubt, and revisiono re. decided upon I see no reason
why the works should not be practically completed by 31% March 1887.
Generally, Imay say
that the four
interior works, North Pouch, Kowloon Dock, Kowloon Hest, and Stonecutter East Central, have been converted from open Batteries into defensible Forts; and, with respect to the
rew
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