CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 288

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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36499

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Red 15 OCT 07

Peking.

33097

001 5 1907

17 August 1907.g

389.

sir,

With

reference to my despatch No. 191 of the 24th

April last, I have now the honour to report that Mr.

Wu Ting-fang having deal ined to accept the appointment

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2. conferred upon him by Imperial Decres, on the ground of

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ill-health, the commencement of work on the Canton-

Koslown ka lway has been postponed pending the choice of

a suitable successor.

A successor has now been found in the preon of

Mr, Kol-Fan, a Second Rank official and Taotai Designate

on the Xuangsi establishment, and the Imperial assent

to the appointment has been signified in response to a

Kemorial by the Board of Communications which was

published in the Garette of the 7th instant.

Kr. Tei-Wan, whose appointment as Managing Director

is gazetted, is described in the Memorial as having a

reputation for ability and special knowledge of subjecte

connected with publia worka.

He appears, according to a

telegram

The Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey Bart.. I.P.,

etc. eta. etc.

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