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500

!

a ton cheaper than when our

letter

of

the 27

tt

of August last-

Braun

was written and that the Admiralty 15340

whom we have consulted on

us that

the subject informs it has been found by experience that the most satisfactory way of burning Japanese coul is

to mix it with Welsh Coal

and that the two Couls are now used in H. Mis Ships in the East in the proportion of Welch to Japances.

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I may also point out that reither the Hong Trong Government nor the Surveyor General have

answered in

any way

suggestion

the

Aques

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suggration made by the Secretary. State in his despatch of the

of

of

September last N 46

that most

of

the articles used

in connection with the tunnelling works could almost certainly be obtained cheaper and of better quality by procuring them things us rather than by purchasing them as at present in the local Market and these remarks apply also of course to almost every article used by the Rublic Works Department in Hong Kong not only for the Water Works but for every other

branch

of

the service..

Theur the honour to be

Sir,

Your Obrdient Servant

{{Mary

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