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TREASURY CHAMBERS,

ong Kong /4690.

sir.

28 December 1894.

The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's

Treasury have had before Them your letter of the 20th

instant enclosing an amended List of Barrack Works at

Hong Kong which the Secretary of State for War considers

it necessary to complete within the next ten years.

This expenditure will be incurred partly in

starling and partly in Dollars, but it will be more

convenient to express it in Sterling only, for present,

purposes, if My Lords are right in thinking that the bulk

of it has been originally calculated in that denomination;

and the apportionment of it between this Country and the

Colony will then be as follows, in round figures.

United Kingdom

HongKong Total

Average yearly expenditure

for 10 years

10

14,128 7,065

21,193-

Total expenditure

#141,285 70,650 211,935

The British share will be defrayed to the extent of #35,000 from the Imperial Defence Loan, and the remaindar from Army Votes, and some of it has been paid already.

For the sake of this country as well as of the Colony, My Lords hope that this programme may not be pressed forward more hastily than the circumstances really render necessary; but, with this proviso they have no objection to offer to the scheme.

he Financial Secretary,

War Office.

copy of this latter is being forwarded to the

Coloni al