CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12] — Page 406

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Government House,

8th HongKong, 8

November, 1900.

I have the honour to acknowledge the re-

ceipt of your Circular Despatch of the 21st.September regard-

ing the general terms and conditions upon which concessions

are granted for the landing of electric cables and the estab-

lishment of telegraph stations on the coasts of British co-

lonies.

2. The question of cable reserves is one

which has for some time been engaging my attention in con-

nection with certain offers for the purchase of land upon

which the cable stations now stand, and the necessity for

changing the position of the cables if the land in question

is sold.

osure

3. The history of cable reserves in this

Colony will be found fully detailed in the précis which is

attached to the correspondence transmitted herewith. The

Agreement with the Great Northern Telegraph Company of Octo-

28th. 1870 which is referred to in the Precis will be

found as an enclosure to Major General Whitfield's despatch

No.97 of the 31st. October in that year, to which I have the

ber

Right Honourable,

hon-

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.

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