CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4] — Page 284

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Government House.

Hong-Kong, 16th.March, 1899.

With reference to Major-General Black's des-

patch No.223 of the 6th. August and to your reply thereto No.

285 of the 2nd.November last, I have the honour to forward to you the enclosed map showing the difference between the ori-

ginal plan of the Naval Yard Extension and that which Vice-

Admiral Sir E.H. Seymour now informs me has been finally ap-

2. The original scheme is indicated by the red

line, and the new scheme is delineated in blue. The dotted red

line marks the proposed line of Reclamation of the Eastern

Praya.

3.

General Black has already advanced the ob-

jections of the Colonial Government to the rounding off of

the Eastern extension of the Naval Yard, and I have myself ad-

dressed Vice-Admiral Sir R.H. Seymour on this point. It is un-

necessary to re-iterate those objections, but I trust that you

will see fit to make a further representation to the Admiralty

with a view of some satisfactory arrangement being arrived

at with the War Department whereby the Eastern end of the Ad-

The Right Honourable

miralty

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.