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Enclosure B.

Honourable C. P. CHATER,

DEAR SIR,

HONGKONG, 15th September, 1887.

In accordance with the invitation conveyed in your letter of the 3rd instant, we beg to point out that the cutting off of the reclamation, and the termination of the proposed new praya road immediately opposite to Marine Lot No. 188 is calcu- lated, by interrupting the sweep of the tides, to cause a vast increase of the same deposit from the Shektongtsui Nullah at this point.

The owner of Marine Lot No. 188 is precluded from the extension of his area. whilst the owner of Marine Lot No. 183 will have his Lot inextricably encumbered with sand deposit.

This will in a short time become really formidable, spreading westward, and shallowing the water in point of Marine Lots Nos. 183 to 177 and Marine Lot No. 126, which have only just now, at great cost, been reclaimed.

Moreover the new Praya Roadway is made to terminate in a most awkward and unsightly manner, with a godown wall at right angles across its face, a defect which has not failed to attract the attention of every one on examining the plan.

By continuing the reclamation but seventy-five feet further and carrying out the nullah sewer into deep water all these difficulties will be removed.

The owner

of Marine Lot No. 188 can then share in the extension. Marine Lots Nos. 183 to 126 will be relieved from the danger which threatens their frontages, whilst the new Praya Road will be connected directly in line with a street of equal width, forming, for the meantime, a most appropriate termination of this work to the West.

We are, Dear Sir,

Yours faithfully,

SHARP & Co., Owners of Marine Lots

Nos. 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182.

I consider the foregoing quite correct, and that the value of my Marine Lot No. 183 would be very greatly depreciated by the termination of the Praya Road opposite Marine Lot No. 188. The danger of silting up my frontage by sand deposit would be removed were the extension carried only 75 feet further West, so as to admit of the nullah sewer being carried out into deep water, and thereby to reach the sweep of the tides.

(IP CHING CHUNE)葉晴川 Owner of Marine Lot No. 183.

A plan of the proposed alteration is annexed.

Enclosure C.

HONGKONG, 3rd September, 1887.

To the Honourable C. P. CHATER, M.L.C.,

SIR,

Adverting to your correspondence with the Colonial Government upon the new reclamation scheme and to your request that the marine lot-owners should furnish you with any objections to the scheme or suggestions as to its improvement, we beg to lay before you the following points which to our minds require modi- fication, and which we feel sure will otherwise cause opposition, not only from ourselves, but from many other marine lot-owners to what can otherwise only be regarded as a scheme tending to the great improvement of this Colony,