CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 552

of British North Bonus have addressed them with a view to the extension of

means

of a cable

system to that place by from Singapore to British & North Borneo,

touching

en route at Labuan & Jarawak,

Should this arran

be rrangement opportunity would be

carried out, an

afforded, by continuing the new cable from North Bornico to Hongkong, of giving This Colony direct communication with that rapidly developing country,

same

and of the

time providing that alternative route to singapore touching only on British Territory, which has been so geneully. recognised as politically & strategically important.

I would point out that the

cables are

the existing

amply sufficient to carry

considerable increase of the present traffic, and as the additional traffic due to the

new cable would be

retablishment of the

entirely insignificant in proportion to the large outlay, my Directors instruct

me

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to state that the extension could only be carried out in consideration of the undertaking

being subsidized by the Government interested.

I would mention that the subsidies

named in.

my

-Cotton of eApril 14th 1888 were

for a duration of 20 years, that being the period upon which all our actucerial. calculations are bazed, and dam now- instructed to inquire whether the Government

of Hongkong would be disposed to grant subsidy for 20 years for this purpose, and if so, of what amount.

своя

taken by

gather that

one...

a

of the objections

the Chamber of Commerce to formal. proposals was that the advantages

were

beg to

e purely political, I would now point out that the presont proposition, if

carried into effect,

would subserve both

political and commercial interests. I have re

(Signed) Walter Judd,

Manager

in China.

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