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No. 17.
SIR,
Hongkong, 12th May, 1892, On the 29th ultimo I wrote to you asking if His Excellency the Governor would give instructions that the amount of our claim for Pier compensation should be paid; but as yet, I have not received a reply.
I trust that His Excellency will not consider me importunate in repeating my request, considering that it is now more than three years since the amount to be paid to the Owners and Occupiers of Piers along the line of the Reclamation was settled and incorporated in the Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1889.
The Hon. G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.
I have, &c. (Signed)
THOMAS HOWARD.
No. 1232.
SIR,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th July, 1892.
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant and to inform you in reply that no apportionment of the block sum of $180,000 in respect of compensation to pier and wharf owners can be made until either an Ordinance in that behalf has been passed, or all the parties concerned have bound themselves by a deed of agreement approved by the Government to submit to arbitration in respect of their several claims.
T. Howard, Esq.
&c., &c., &c.
I have, &c. (Signed)
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 853.
No. 15.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th May, 1892.
SIR,
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 12th instant and 29th ultimo and to inform you in reply that a Bill to enable the sum of $180,000 under Ordinance 16 of 1889 to be apportioned will be introduced into the Legislative Council on Monday next.
T. Howard, Esq.,
&c., &c., &c.
I have, &c. (Signed)
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 16.
No. 18.
SIR,
18, Bank Buildings, Hongkong, April 27th, 1894.
THE PRAYA WHARVES AND PIERS ORDINANCE 1893.
On applying to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer for payment of the sum of $22,008.79 due this day as compensation for the private pier opposite to Marine Lot No. 184, the Colonial Treasurer informed me he had not received any instructions with reference to such payment.
I have therefore to ask that you will be good enough to issue the necessary directions that such sum be at once paid to me.
I have, &c.
The Hon. G. T. M. O'Brien, C.M.G. Colonial Secretary.
(Signed)
MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS.
SIR,
Hongkong, 2nd July, 1892.
You have not replied to my letter of the 14th May in which I asked for a list of Measurements and Values of the Piers included in the $180,000 set apart by Ordinance as compensation to Owners and Occupiers.
I am now writing to say that I do not require it, having seen a list of the Piers and Values, but no Measurements, whereby the Values were arrived at.
However, as the list has been endorsed as reasonable by the Director of Public Works, I have nothing more to say about it, save to ask that His Excellency the Governor will give instructions that the amount $16,016 entered in that list as the Value of our Pier may be paid to me at once.
His Excellency will see the justice of this request when he is informed that the greater part of our Pier has been removed in consequence of the progress of the Reclamation, and the use of it is therefore lost to us.
The Hon. G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G.,
Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
THOMAS HOWARD.
No. 681
SIR,
No. 19.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1894.
In reply to your letter of the 27th ultimo, I am directed to inform you that His Excellency is unable to issue instructions for the payment to you of the sum referred to.
I am further directed to point out to you that the reclamation in front of Marine Lot No. 184 has not yet been commenced, and that inasmuch as the Pier for which you claim is not situated on any portion of the Reclamation actually in course of construction, the sum apportioned to you as the Owner of the Pier, is not payable until six months after the commencement of the work on the portion of the reclamation opposite Marine Lot No. 184.
M. J. D. STEPHENS, Esq.
&c., &c., &c.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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No. 14.
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No. 17.
SIR,
Hongkong, 12th May, 1892, Ox the 29th ultimo I wrote to you asking if His Excellency the Governor would give instructions that the amount of our claim for Pier compensation should be paid; but as yet, I have not received a reply.
I trust that His Excellency will not consider me importunate in repenting my request, considering that it is now more than three years since the amount to be paid to the Owners and Occupiers of Piers along the line of the Reclamation was settled and incorporated in the Pruya Reclamation Ordinance 1889.
The Hon. G. T. M. O'BRIEN, OMG.. Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.
1 have, &c. (Sigued)
THOMAS HOWARD.
No. 1232.
SI,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th July, 1892.
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant and to informe yon in reply that no apportionment of the block sum of $180,000 in respeen of compensation to pier and wharf owners can be onde until either an Ordinance in that behalf has been passed, or all the parties concerned have bound themselves by a deed of agreement approvel by the Government to submit to arbitration in respect of their several claims.
T. Howard, Esq.
dr., de, &c.
I love. &e. (Signed)
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary,
No. 853.
No. 15.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th May, 1892.
SIR.
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 12th instant and 29th - ultimo and to inform yon in reply that a Bill to enable the sum of $180,000 under Ordinance- 16 of 1889 to be apportioned will be introduced into the Legislative Council on Monday next.
T. Howard, Esq..
&c., &c., &p..
I have, de. (Signed)
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary-
No. 16.
No. 18.
SIB,
18, Bank Buildings, Hongkong, April 27th, 1894.
THE PRAYA WHARVES AND Pirns ORDINANOS 1893.
ON applying to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer for payment of the sum of $22.008.79 due this day as compensation for the private pier opposite to Marine Lot No. 184, the Colonial Treasurer informed me he had not received any instructions with reference to such payment.
I have therefore to ask that you will be good enough to issue the necessary directions. that such saw be at once paid to me,
I have. &c.
The Hon. G, T. M. O'Brien, C.M.G. Colonial Secretary.
(Signed)
MATTHEW. J. D. STEPHENS.
SIR,
Hongkong, 2nd July, 1892.
You have not replied to my letter of the 14th May in which I asked for a list of Measurements and Values of the Piers included in the $180,000 set apart by Ordinance us compensation to Owners and Occupiers..
I am now writing to say that I do not require it, having seen a list of the Piers and Vaines, but no Measurements, whereby the Values were arrrived at.
However, as the list has been endorsed as reasonable by the Director of Public Works, I have nothing more to say about it, save to ask that His Excellency the Governor will give instructions that the amonnt $16,016 entered in that list as the Value of our Pier may be paid
to ne at once.
His Excellency will see the justice of this request when he is informed that the greater part of our Pier has been removed in consequence of the progress of the Reclamation, and the use of it is therefore lost to us.
The Hon, G. T. M. O'BRIEN, O.MO,
Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
THOMAS HOWARD.
No. 681
SIR.
No. 19.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1894.
In reply to your letter of the 27th ultimo, I am directed to inform you that His Excellency I am further is unable to issue instructions for the payment to you of the sum referred to. directed to point out to you that the reclamation in front of Marine Lot No. 184 has not yet been commenced, and that inasmuch as the Pier for which you claim is not situated on any portion of the Reclamation actually in course of construction, the sum apportioned to you as the Owner of the Pier, is not payable until six months after the commencement of the work on the portion of the reclamation opposite Marine Lot No. 184.
M. J. D. STEPHEens, Esq.
&c., &c. &c.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. H. STEWART LOOKHART,
Acting Colonial Secretary-
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