the payment of the Military Contribution due by the Colonial Government, without delay.
Your obedient servant,
Within Raw
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Extract of a Letter dated Hongkong 28th July, 1876 from A. Shervinton
The Military contribution for the quarter ending the 31st March and which "has been written for on the 10th May 1876 and again on the 1st June 1876 has not yet been paid indeed has any notice whatever been "taken of the letters addressed to the "Colonial Secretary on this subject. All "letters on Financial questions "addressed to the Colonial Government remain unreplied to - or are "returned with an intimation that they