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Hongkong. Sir Clifton lunched with me a day or two ago and

I asked him whether he had looked into this question. He

replied in the identical phrase I had myself used to Your

Lordship that he "had not regarded it seriously", and I

gathered that he had no wish to have his name in any way

connected with it, and repudiated any investigation regard-

-ing it, he gave me the impression that he regarded it as

rediculous.

3.

In reply to paragraph 5 of your

Despatch, there was no intention of "encouraging Senor

Pescio to take steps for raising money to carry out sur-

-veys". Mr. Clementi's letter of October 29th., 1909,

referred to in this paragraph, reiterated the fact that no

fouling of Pokfulam Reservoir will be permitted, until

after the Tytam Fxtension Scheme is put through. Mr. Pescio

is aware that that scheme is not even in contemplation at

the present time, and if and when commenced, will take many

years to carry out. He had complained of the scant courtesy

extended to his projects, and more especially that they had

not received any careful consideration. In spite of

courteous intimations both from my predecessor and myself

that we could not support his scheme, he pressed for a

personal interview and made statements regarding the

favourable