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make in

regard

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tha

present priancial position of

the Colony.

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&x Reet 23 JAN 19

I have the honour to acknowledge

the receipt of your dispatch (Secret) 8th November 1898 with sperma

The

to the

a road between

proposed construction

of a Wanchai and Wong-nei-chong.

2. I have conveyrd to you, by telegram, my opinion that the colony is in a position to incur this rependition. I find that the the Local Revenues for the reven

expediti.

TAL

Recipts

months sxeced the satimated revenue by

$164.000.

3. I have not lost sight of the coming necessity for Expenditur in Kowloon

What the necessary

initial sxpenditung

will be I cannot say until I have! visited the leased teritory, but

of

am satisfied that the sevenue the Colony as it stands will not be sufficient

to bear wven the first

TuR! Hon.

necess any

Joseph Chamberlain M.P.

Sentary of State for

the Colonies.