CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11] — Page 499

OP Y.

No. 3.

405

anlénixa Ila1 or visza od za beretia ou ed IInde consulbr0

*at must raqet Inscrevod to syntistrebnu Imotntosie

‚*04,BOR£ ¡dorak .dtal mű

galtok mis" tm\t asviðsómeasnger a 'unaquoɔ wawment erit berr:ct-

artó between në Ikaw niloytuo add yď bedoırtdani ad LLEw noKievod

wutuh no galdetze i ́s tot ewrosa od as oa souzniþvo Ptarb

=>Taqall Snangrovel of ant¬nofed senti suoriqelet no digergolet

no IK #oldaat vi børnetnoo at roide moltomjonų frume erið æðases.

."asinaqvod added edit to sentí QUE

#onehnoqasytoo quit most naelo atlap el $1

of bretta of saw RÍAÏT#denɗO .«M to motanecni edz dødt batoup

aaw 2ndź mottoedoną to zmes Gray srið nenoriqelə? #nemarievod ent

#æðni miɗo ben metengweð einsɔ sốt nà £6 mlrae8 vɗ bebrotts

VỀ TIENGUBO va matt end of visioligte bersolaurmoo new gold-

Spli pilotav vital to "er of air mi aðsók to w rekoek asit

atnodqefms" abtow orld Peant of sulfat so?

sia varit ti hua,latnobloom vienug nav &I sell al *atutosis no

.hoitoetdo tot hators ort svad LĹàw adcelin "ov bedrseat won

ats as bus ES enoitos” to atmomkrans asti

#eoperettib to Inɛesiddem asid n02 vienisɔæm sbivory od habastat

sir,

24th. instant.

2.

1, Des Voeux Road,

Hongkong, 26th. August, 1909.

Electric Tramways.

C O

41342

IREC REGE 22 DEC 09

We are in receipt of your letter of the

With reference to the intention of Mr.

Chamberlain when conducting the correspondence alluded to there- -in, our clients have no knowledge on the point and must refer

the matter home for instructions.

3.

What Mr. Chamberlain's intention may havO

been (and we do not agree that it is "quite clear*) does not

seem so much to the point as what the intention of the Legis-

-lature was in enacting the Ordinance. There is nothing in the

extracts yon quote to shew that Mr. Chamberlain did not alter

his intention or that the Legislature did not expressly over-

-ride it.

4.

*+049 swest I

noneori ..A (.be)

**TS<<TO#2 fetuofo

€

elde-}fagami ni samo lalonga to

•hoosed bus tooo [novaeⱭ .ETEEN

In view of the extract from the letter of

the 14th. March, 1902, which you quote, the presumption is

that such intention was in fact altered or ERORISES overw

-ridden as we cannot assume the Government would disregard Hr.

Chamberlain's instructions.

5.

Your letter under reply does not deal in

any way with the principle contained in paragraph 5 of our

letter of the 20th. instant.

6.

We are instructed to request the Government

to postpone the second reading of the proposed Bill until our clients have had an opportunity of communicating with their

Head office both on the subject of the correspondence with Mr. Chamberlain and of the principle put forward in paragraph ♬ in

our letter of the 20th. instant.

For the purposes of this reference we shall

be