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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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
Colonial Office