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the town could not in
As
before at a
very
be sold
future high price,
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people will always be afraid of m buying it, and both the Catholia
Community
and the Colony of HongKong will suffer, the former by not being
able to have the New Cathedral
finished in time to
supply
imperious wouts caused by
its
ito
---
daily increasing and the latter ___
our not
for our
being able now to get
"such amount of fireeds by the sale
of!
the lot to oniament the exterior
the Church as much as
of the
wve
had
desired to render the Cathedral a
worthy
resomument of the Colony Thanking His Excellency the Governor for his kindness
of
my
trauemitting very letter to the coutury of State for the Colonies,
I have
(oligued) Johu I. Raimondi
Titular Bishop of Acantho aud
Vroar Apostolic of HongKong.
transmitting