CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 763

!

No. 174.

174.

Hongkong.

June, 1904.

Enclosures

sir,

C.0.

27180

JUL 05

Government House,

754

Hongkong, 30th. June, 1905.

I have the honour to forward for

your consideration the enclosed copy of a Report by the

Assistant Harbour Master on the subject of the means of

A

communication between the Harbour Office and the various

Stations now indirectly connected with it and to inform

you that I propose to place a sum of $8,901, as detailed

below, upon the Estimates for the ensuing year for the

purpose of effecting the following alterations and improve-

-ments in the system of communication.

2.

I propose to make the Harbour

Office instead of the Joint Telegraph Companies' Office the

terminus for the lines from Gap Rock, Victoria Peak and

Waglan Island (via Cape D'Aguilar) and to substitute Tele-

-graph for Telephone Instruments for communication with

Green Island, Victoria Peak and Waglan (via Cape D'Aguilar).

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

I propose further to connect Cape Collinson Lighthouse THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

with

80.1

80...

14)