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General has not hitherto advised

any such proceedings. He further

stated that he was

informed that

the present has in hand

about four hundred pounds (£400) - worth of Oriental Bank Notes

in its hands. Now that a liquidator has been appointed, the proper legal step would, à

Bonnik, be to formally demand

in the Bank payment of

these notes and order that the

interest thereon from the date of such demand, but the Secretary of State's

telegram was brief and from

others doing

so. What

that; and the interest on

£400 at 5 per cent, would hardly

repay the

expense of telegraphing for further instructions.

To the Treasurer, W. H. Lister writes that the notes of the Oriental

Bank Notes held by Government with others are in the Treasury. So far

nothing has been done hitherto but to collect them together in the Treasury. W. H.

Lister agrees with the Storey General; - and remarks that

it would be better to leave us

to manipulate this matter

as circumstances on

the

spot may seem to require; for

we

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