625
1874
I was
When, withe
engaged.
year
England
to erect and supervise the Hongkong Lights, the terms of my agreement
stated that I
was to
districtly have free quarters, £300 per annum,
lar was to be
while Cape L'iAguilar
considered head quarters.
In reference to salary
They to remark that from the date
of my are
arrival in the Colorpantil aforesaid has
the present, the sum
been dwindling down annually year it stood at x264
until East
only, and that including the benefit derived from remitting half-pay.
As to Quarters I
observe that according to the Secretary of State's despatch, a sum of 7600.
from the 35% increase, for
exorbitant suum,
how an
2-2-2 L
my
Case
been deducted
lize
of
Parders, avi
it
secno fo
levied,
no doubl
through
through
some musconception on
the part of excs Lordship
as to the
relative value of land in the wilds
of Cape D'Aquilar
flourishing city of
and the
Victoria. To what
extent the value of property may have
increase
in the City and
immediate vicinity I am
h
say.
carn
Jam unable That it has increased there
be no doubt, though that ins
way effects u at the cape.
are 18 miles from
Distant as
Lue
the Capital whence we obtain our provisions and whither air coche travels, as of yore,
ever
تم سے
distane
of 36 miles, (18 by land and 12 by water) twice
with no weekly, eign of European habitationis within 14 miles, save the Police Stations at Stanley and Thanksion and with the native villages, hard. by, much in the same condition as they
were 20 years ago,
may
Ase
of
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