The Accounts might be instructed to tender further supply to the

In however

amount / 2000 - but he tire I

only

in circumstance apparently for stat

be

Lieutenant, the supply might, 40000 of

a

of this

them I a cost of 2000 loveme, then be instructed to

after what further supply he

requires.

I think it will happen and this will undoubtedly

the Journal

Telegraph if he wants a further supply of

small coinage

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Offices of the Crown Agents for the Colonies. Spring Gardens. London: 2:3143

SE

10

30 August 1872.

the

of the 19

the

In reply to your letter instant, enclosing copy of Governor Kennedy's despatch 138 of 26 June last, for any observations

I have now the honor to state for the Earl of Kimberley's information as follows.

1. The amount debited to the Colony in the accounts of the Crown Agents for April last, made by this Department, was, as Sir A Kennedy states, largely due to the purchase of bar silver for the subsidiary coinage ordered for Hong Kong.

2. It is coming necessity in money that the weight of silver purchased should be considerably

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