CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895 — Page 17

The Eastern Extension Australasia & China

Telegraph Company, Limited, Winchester House, 50, Old Broad Street,

London, EC.

25th, February,-

1995.

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My Lord Marquess,

The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company

having under consideration the question of obtaining

new Offices in Hongkong, I recently instructed the

Company's Manager in China to approach the Governor

of Hongkong with a view to obtaining a suitable site

for the purpose on the Reclamation opposite to the

City Hall.

I also instructed him to suggest to the

Government that as the Company's relations with the

Imperial and Colonial Governments were now so intimate,

by reason, not only of the recent arrangements resulting

in the laying of the strategic Cables between Singapore,

Labuan and Hongkong (the importance of which at the

present moment is considerably accentuated) with the

consequent reduced rates for Government telegrams,

but

The Most Honorable

&C.

The Marquess of Ripon,

&c.

K.G.

&c.

Secretary of State for the Colonies.