CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 159

Copy.

No. 103.

Messrs.

157

Sir John Wolfe Barry & Partners to Mr. G. W. Eves.

21, Delahay Street,

S.W.

21st. August 1908.

KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY

BRITISH SECTION.

Dear Sir,

1.

With further reference to paragraph 7 of your general letter No. 63 dated the 11th. ultimo, we understand your difficulty, but do not consider that we are entitled to give you any advice on such atter unless desired to

As we have do so by the Government of Hong Kong.

repeatedly pointed out, you are in all respects the

servant of the Government of Hong Kong, and must therefore

We have follow the instructions of H.E. the Governor.

no doubt that His Excellency would refer the matter to us should you urgently request him to do so.

2. With regard to paragraph 10, although nothing has yet been definitely settled, it has been proposed that Mr. A. J. Barry should inspect the Railway on our behalf, as he will at any rate be in China about the end of the year. Perhaps His Excellency might think it desirable to postpone the matter of the Bridges until the question of the inspection is settled, and, if it is decided that Mr, A. J. Barry shall inspect the line, until his arrival in

the Colony.

Yours

for

&c.,

SIR JOHN WOLFE BARRY & PARTNERS,

(Sgd.)

J. Wolfe Barry.