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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The Chinese have made certain proposals, which will obviate the necessity of the Burmo-Chinese Delimitation Commission going over much of the southern frontier of Yunnan more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
I have in various ways endeavoured to elicit from the India Office some idea of the terms that might be worked out, but hitherto without any result. On the 25th October 1891 I wrote asking more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
These views were placed before the Marquis of Salisbury, then Secretary for India, in letters dated 18th and 27th August 1874, extracts from which are attached, and which I would ask you to consider in this connection more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
Sir, - I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th ult. Submitting proposals for the construction of a railway in Burmah from Mandalay to the Chinese frontier. more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
Waiving, so far as not necessary, or bearing on the subject, the correspondence that has passed, I would respectfully ask if your lordship or the Government of India are now prepared to entertain proposals for concessions for the prosecution of railway work in Burmah more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
was obliged by your courtesy in replying to my letter of 10th April 1890. I did not acknowledge and thank you for it at the time, as I now beg to do, being unwilling to trouble you with correspondence more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
There is abundance of room for it without interfering with any other line of communication either present or future; besides more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
There is abundance of room for it without interfering with any other line of communication either present or future; besides more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The answer I got from the Secretary of State was declining to “consider terms,” intending to do all extension of the Burmah system which may be deemed expedient themselves. more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (14)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The annexation of Upper Burmah of course very materially altered the position of matters regarding its connection with Arakan on the one hand, and China on the other more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (13)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
However satisfactory may be the present condition of our commercial relations with India, I am quite convinced that they will prove capable of indefinite expansion, especially if once the British investor could be induced to regard India as a favorable field more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (12)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
At our interview on Saturday, I understood you to say you were not aware of Captain (now Major-General) Strover’s report on the mineral resources of Burmah. I send it herewith. It is attached (p.9) to letters which I addressed to the Secretary of State for India more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
With reference to our conversation some time ago as to a connection between Arakan and Upper Burmah, I submit a letter which I purpose sending to the India Office.If, as I understood you, you seemed to think there were two objections to my proposals more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
My Lord Marquis, - On the eve of your departure for your high and important position in India, I reluctantly take leave to trespass on you for a moment more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (9)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The Government are the proprietors, and surely they will not longer delay doing what must speedily increase their revenue. Have the line of railway constructed more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (8)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
His Honour trusts that the inhabitants of the wealthy districts of Patna and Gya will come forward, and, by subscribing to the proposed loan, secure to themselves the benefit of a railway through their district more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (7)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
There is no competing sea; there are no competing rivers. There are no roads, competing or other. All the traffic of twenty millions of people must pass over the iron roads more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (6)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The public resident so near the line as presumably to benefit by its construction was invited to subscribe to the undertaking. The shares were fixed at Rs. 100 each. more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (5)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
depends largely for its supply of rice, the chief staple of its trade, upon Tipperah. Reasons of an equally strong character show the importance of retransferring Tipperah to the Chittagong division, and of adding Arakan thereto. more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (4)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
In a late issue we drew attention to Sir A. Cotton’s advocacy for the development of the resources of India. In doing so, we certainly did not go into his views as regards canals in opposition to railways more +
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John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The Chinese have made certain proposals, which will obviate the necessity of the Burmo-Chinese Delimitation Commission going over much of the southern frontier of Yunnan more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (22)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
I have in various ways endeavoured to elicit from the India Office some idea of the terms that might be worked out, but hitherto without any result. On the 25th October 1891 I wrote asking more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (21)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
These views were placed before the Marquis of Salisbury, then Secretary for India, in letters dated 18th and 27th August 1874, extracts from which are attached, and which I would ask you to consider in this connection more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (20)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
Sir, - I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th ult. Submitting proposals for the construction of a railway in Burmah from Mandalay to the Chinese frontier. more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (19)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
Waiving, so far as not necessary, or bearing on the subject, the correspondence that has passed, I would respectfully ask if your lordship or the Government of India are now prepared to entertain proposals for concessions for the prosecution of railway work in Burmah more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (18)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
was obliged by your courtesy in replying to my letter of 10th April 1890. I did not acknowledge and thank you for it at the time, as I now beg to do, being unwilling to trouble you with correspondence more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (17)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
There is abundance of room for it without interfering with any other line of communication either present or future; besides more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (16)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
There is abundance of room for it without interfering with any other line of communication either present or future; besides more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (15)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The answer I got from the Secretary of State was declining to “consider terms,” intending to do all extension of the Burmah system which may be deemed expedient themselves. more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (14)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The annexation of Upper Burmah of course very materially altered the position of matters regarding its connection with Arakan on the one hand, and China on the other more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (13)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
However satisfactory may be the present condition of our commercial relations with India, I am quite convinced that they will prove capable of indefinite expansion, especially if once the British investor could be induced to regard India as a favorable field more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (12)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
At our interview on Saturday, I understood you to say you were not aware of Captain (now Major-General) Strover’s report on the mineral resources of Burmah. I send it herewith. It is attached (p.9) to letters which I addressed to the Secretary of State for India more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (11)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
With reference to our conversation some time ago as to a connection between Arakan and Upper Burmah, I submit a letter which I purpose sending to the India Office.If, as I understood you, you seemed to think there were two objections to my proposals more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (10)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
My Lord Marquis, - On the eve of your departure for your high and important position in India, I reluctantly take leave to trespass on you for a moment more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (9)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The Government are the proprietors, and surely they will not longer delay doing what must speedily increase their revenue. Have the line of railway constructed more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (8)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
His Honour trusts that the inhabitants of the wealthy districts of Patna and Gya will come forward, and, by subscribing to the proposed loan, secure to themselves the benefit of a railway through their district more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (7)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
There is no competing sea; there are no competing rivers. There are no roads, competing or other. All the traffic of twenty millions of people must pass over the iron roads more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (6)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
The public resident so near the line as presumably to benefit by its construction was invited to subscribe to the undertaking. The shares were fixed at Rs. 100 each. more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (5)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
depends largely for its supply of rice, the chief staple of its trade, upon Tipperah. Reasons of an equally strong character show the importance of retransferring Tipperah to the Chittagong division, and of adding Arakan thereto. more +
Arakan- Past - Present - Future (4)
John Ogilvy Hay, J.P | Wednesday, March 09, 1892
In a late issue we drew attention to Sir A. Cotton’s advocacy for the development of the resources of India. In doing so, we certainly did not go into his views as regards canals in opposition to railways more +
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