CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9] — Page 575

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Re

37121 571

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REL 24CT OF

His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake G.C.M.G.

Governor of Hong Kong and its Dependencies

&c.

&c.

&c.

The Humble Petition of the China and Japan

Telephone and Electric Company Limited

sheweth as follows:-

1.

Your Petitioners are a limited Company registered

in England and carrying on business in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and have since the year 1884 been established and carrying on the business of a Telephone Exchange as the only public Telephone Company in

the Colony of Hongkong.

2.

A Bill entitled "An Ordinance for authorizing the

Construction of a Tramway within the Colony of Hong Kong" was published

in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 20th July 1901 and such

Bill has been read first and second time by the Legislative Council

of Hongkong and your Petitioners are informed has now been forwarded

to England for the consideration of His Majesty's Principal Secretary

of State for the Colonies.

3.

The motive power proposed to be used in connection

with the lines to be laid down by the Tramway Company to be established

under the suggested Ordinance is electricity and your Petitioners understand that the single trolley system is to be installed and that...

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To Re 37121 571 ... REL 24CT OF His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong and its Dependencies &c. &c. &c. The Humble Petition of the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company Limited sheweth as follows:- 1. Your Petitioners are a limited Company registered in England and carrying on business in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and have since the year 1884 been established and carrying on the business of a Telephone Exchange as the only public Telephone Company in the Colony of Hongkong. 2. A Bill entitled "An Ordinance for authorizing the Construction of a Tramway within the Colony of Hong Kong" was published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 20th July 1901 and such Bill has been read first and second time by the Legislative Council of Hongkong and your Petitioners are informed has now been forwarded to England for the consideration of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. 3. The motive power proposed to be used in connection with the lines to be laid down by the Tramway Company to be established under the suggested Ordinance is electricity and your Petitioners understand that the single trolley system is to be installed and that...
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... To Re 37121 571 را REL 24CT OF His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake G.C.M.G. Governor of HongKong and its Dependencies &c. &c. &c. The Humble Petition of the China and Jepan Telephone and Electric Company Limited sheweth as follows:- 1. Your Petitioners are a limited Company registered in England and carrying on business in the United Kingdom and else here and have since the year 1884 been established and carrying on the basi ness of e Telephone Exchange as the only public Telephone Company in the Colony of Hongkong. 2. A Bill entitled "An Ordinance for authorizing the Constraction of a Tramway within the Colory of HongKong" was publishe in the HongKong Government Gazette of the 20th. July 1901 and such Pill has been read & first and second time by the Legislative Council of Hongkong and your Petitioners are informed has now been forwards to England for the consideration of His Majesty's Principel Secreta of State for the Colonies. 2. The motive poner proposed to be used in conneche with the lines to be laid down by the Tramway Company to be establisk under the suggested Ordinance is electricity and your Petitioners u stand that the single trolley system is to be installed and that E
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Re

37121 571

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REL 24CT OF

His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake G.C.M.G.

Governor of HongKong and its Dependencies

&c.

&c.

&c.

The Humble Petition of the China and Jepan

Telephone and Electric Company Limited

sheweth as follows:-

1.

Your Petitioners are a limited Company registered

in England and carrying on business in the United Kingdom and else here and have since the year 1884 been established and carrying on the basi

ness of e Telephone Exchange as the only public Telephone Company in

the Colony of Hongkong.

2.

A Bill entitled "An Ordinance for authorizing the

Constraction of a Tramway within the Colory of HongKong" was publishe

in the HongKong Government Gazette of the 20th. July 1901 and such

Pill has been read & first and second time by the Legislative Council

of Hongkong and your Petitioners are informed has now been forwards

to England for the consideration of His Majesty's Principel Secreta

of State for the Colonies.

2.

The motive poner proposed to be used in conneche

with the lines to be laid down by the Tramway Company to be establisk

under the suggested Ordinance is electricity and your Petitioners u

stand that the single trolley system is to be installed and that

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