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will be given daily (except Sundays) by dropping a Ball from Her Majesty's Receiving Ship "Victor Emanuel. The Finance Committee have voted
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of $30 a month to be paid to the officer who will be charged with these duties, and I beg to submit this vote for Your Lordship's
approval.
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gather from Your Lordship's instructions that sometime will probably elapse before sanction is given for the construction of an Observatory, and in the meantime the arrangement now made, which suggested by the Harbour Master in his amual Report will
prove
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prove a great boon to Masters of vessels calling at this Post. The Tytam
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Water Works, the new trison, Central School etc. will more than absorb
all the available balances, and a loan will probably have to be effected.
Under these circumstances it seems
me that Bonghong should not be
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to
to defray the whole cost of
an
Observatory which will be institution of Imperial rather than of
Colonial interest.
I have the honour to be
My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient Bremble dervant, Mellanh
Administrator
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