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confer with the Colonial Office as well. I did not

fail to draw his attention to the fact that settled

and orderly government in the Kwangtung, "unan and

Hupeh provinces was a necessary preliminary to the inception of schemes of such magnitude as he had

described, and that a good administration in these

provinces would do more than anything else to encourage British financiers to assist in the schemes

for railway and port development, which he had put

before me.

10. At present many of these projects are still

in a nebulous state. I have no definite information,

concerning the Thampoa scheme; nor do I know what

feeder lines are suggested to be built in connection

with the Chinese section of the Kowloon-Canton railway;

nor am I at all confident that any of the estimates

put before me yesterday by r. Choy are reliable. In principle, however, and subject to examination of

the various schemes by expert engineers and financiers,

I have no hesitation in expressing my conviction that these projects, if carried out as a whole, would be

of immense benefit to this Colony as well as to the

province of Kwangtung.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,

瓮

Governor &c.,