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Sum

of Twenty three thousand _ #93080

dollars for

the creation of.

a sea

wall and embankment at

Tsimshatsui, in Kowloon-

Q

a

3.

It was in connection

with Mr. Sharp's property that the

pledge

was

given for the erection

of

the svall and embankment.

In addition to the

my

information contained in

Minute,

may

state that the

work had to be undertaken to

arest the further eating away by

the sea

of

the valuable marine.

building sites in that locality owned partly by the Government. and partly by Mr Granville -

Sharp

effter the destruction of the

Kowloon Praya by the typhoon of

1867, Mr. Sharp

was allowed to

-pay a merely nominal Crown Kent for the lots he holds in that part of the Colony, Lately however, property in

C

the

immediate neighbourhood of Mr. Sharp's lots has become extremely - valuable, and Mr. Sharp

A vad

called

Feb.