Although nothing official has, so far as I can ascertain, been heard in connection with the proposed rectification of the boundaries of this Colony, it is currently reported that the negotiations have resulted in the enlargement of the Kowloon frontiers, but on a comparatively small scale. In connection with this question the Chamber of Commerce have lately been moving, and have, both by wire and by letter, addressed the Foreign Office strongly, urging the importance of an extension of the Colony. Other representations have also gone forward, I learn, to London, pressing the extreme importanes of securing all that the Navy League advocated as absolutely essential to the safety of the port. It is sincerely to be hoped that Salisbury will at least preserve a firm front in this matter, and not allow his ridiculous ideas about 4 "nation of four hundred millions of brave people" to frighten him from asking what is necessary or into accepting what the mandarins may choose to give.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.