CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 625

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15th May, 1905.

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correspondence with those Authorities with regard to the

Navy taking over the Colonial Signalling Stations at Cape

D'Aguilar and Victoria Peak. The arrangements proposed in

my letter of the 5th. May, 1905, to the Commodore differ

slightly from those indicated in the 3rd. and 4th. para-

-graphs of my Confidential Despatch of the 4th. August,

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4.

I am not certain from the 1st.

paragraph of your Despatch under reply whether the objec-

-tions of the Admiralty to Cape D'Aguilar as a Port War

Signal Station are only those they originally put forward

or whether these have been maintained after receipt of Sir

Gerard Noel's further report. In any event I trust that the

important matter of these War Signal Stations which has

now been the subject of local correspondence since the

11th. June, 1904, will soon be definitely settled.

5.

I have noted the communication

that has been made to Lloyd's referred to in the 2nd.

paragraph of your Despatch and I will await the communica-

-tion promised in the 3rd. paragraph before addressing the

Eastern Extension Company on the subject of their licence

to maintain wireless telegraphy for communication with

their