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I have the honour to forward ?

you copy of a letter which I Enclosure

have addressed to Sir John

Waldham, Her Majesty's Minister

at Peking; and, with a view to

C

save if possible the delay of

another

year

16th January

r in the commencement

of a work of pressing importance

to the Colony

Colony, and in

which there is a

and unanimous.

favour of

very strong

public opinion,

I would earnestly request that

if you

see no

objection to the

alternative proposals contained

in

1888.

in the letter, you

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you will be good

enough to cause the approval

of

Her Majesty's Government to

be communicated to Sir John

Watcham by telegraph.

2.

After much

correspondence and discussion on the subject of this Lighthouse

of the fact that

and in view of the

the proposals of dir Robert_ Hart referred to in the previous

correspondence have recently -

reference

appeared to have re-

erection on one

other of t

of

di

to