CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12] — Page 9

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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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