CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4] — Page 256

FIDETT

Hongkong.

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FOR

EASTERN

Ne.

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USE

COLONIAL OFFICE

My Lord,

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Government House

REG 24 MAR 06

Hongkong, 23rd.February, 1906.

253

Referring to Mr. Lyttelton'ı

Confidential Despatch of the 24th. March, 1905, transmitt-

-ing for my information copies of correspondence on the

subject of the survey of the Section of the Canton-Kowloon

Railway within British Territory, I have the honour to

inform Your Lordship that Mr. J. C. Bruce, Chief Surveying

Engineer and Mr. P. W. W. Valpy, Assistant Surveying

Engineer, who arrived here on the 16th. June, 1905, having

completed the preliminary survey and final location and

pegging out of the line from Kowloon to the Lo Fu Ferry

in accordance with the instructions given to Mr. Bruce by

Sir John Wolfe Barry on the 10th. May, 1905, and to my

satisfaction, have applied for and received my permission

to return to England by the S. S. "Delhi" which leaves

here tomorrow and takes this Despatch.

2.

Mr. Bruce has, I considered, carri-

-ed out the duties with which he was entrusted well and

expeditiously.

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

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&C.

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