This company having proposed to lay a cable across the harbour to connect Vic-with Chinese Kowloon, and having applied for that purpose to the Colonial Government for the necessary permission, the Chamber was asked to ce-operate in the application, to our Committee that the hamper to the could not be accorded w Telegraph Company would give tory guarantees that the proposed cable, the inland lines in connection therewith, should be open to all messages alike ud that grants of privileges to any one submarine line having a station in this colony should be refused. These guarantees having been given, your Committee addressed His Excellency the Admini mmending the company's proposal to the favourable consideration of the Government,
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