CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902 — Page 414

.Keswick Esq: M.P.

412

March 1902.

R.B.S. 24/3

Mr Johnson 24

Mr Lucas

24t

It is understood that the govt will retain the option to pay the whole or and hat at any time

correspondence

Copy to Gov

my 10344 on draft and 11041 a draft in a short des parisi

Anod 120

12909

90.

copy to Tool 27 Mch.

Sir,

I am directed by Mr Sec: Ch: to ack: the

receipt of your letter of the 18th instant

and to inform you that he agrees to the propos

that if the Govt: of HongKong is not in a

position to pay at once the whole of the

purchase money of the land required for the

new Post Office in that Colony, interest at

the rate of 5% a year should be paid from

the date of purchase on the unpaid balance,

d the purợ

2 The 0.A.G. has now been informed that

the land may be taken over at once or there.

anditims

Off.

I am &c.