Further to increasing the capacity of the Reservoir by raising the wall.
3. With reference to the Surveyor General's remarks, in the Enclosure to your despatch under reply, as to the relative advantages of using Japanese or good Welsh Steam coal for driving the tunnelling machinery, I observe that W. Price does not give any data as to the relative amounts of work obtainable from the two kinds of coal, so that it is not possible to test the accuracy of his statement that it is of greater advantage to use Japanese Coal.
4. I am however informed that Welsh coal can now be laid down in Hongkong at from 5% to 6% a ton cheaper than at the date of my predecessor's despatch of September last; and also that the Admiralty, who have been consulted on the subject, state that it has been found by experience that the most satisfactory way of using Japanese Coal is to mix it with Welsh Coal, and that the...
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