CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 58

$

WESLEYAN

ARMY AND NAVY

COMMITTEE.

Enc

G

27375

97

Wesleyan Centenary Hall,

570

Bishopsgate Street Within, E.C.

Per 13 68

March 16th

189 8

sir,

I beg to acknowledge your letter of the 27th December last, No. 27375/97, enclosing for the information of the Wesleyan Army and Navy Committee a dispatch from His Excel- lency the Governor of Hong Kong, and other documents (here- with returned) relating to the grant of a site to the Wesleyan Methodist Church for a Soldiers' and Sailors'

Home at that station.

I am to ask you to be good enough to convey to Mr. Secretary Chamberlain the respectful thanks of the Commit- tee for affording it an opportunity of considering these communications.

The Committee has ventured to delay its reply pending detailed information from its representatives who were

returning from Hong Kong.

This it has now received, and I am instructed to say

that the Committee is in full accord with the Rev. William

Musson in his desire to establish a Soldiers' and Sailors'

Home in Hong Kong, that it is prepared to support him in

the undertaking and that it approves of his action in ap-

proaching His Excellency the Governor with a view to se-

cure a site.

The Committee after careful consideration is of

opinion that the site suggested in Arsenal Street will be

suitable for the purpose, and I am accordingly instructed

very respectfully to ask Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to ap-

The Under Secretary of State

For the Colonies

Colonial Office,

Whitehall, 3.W.,