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Enclosure S.
C
802
17440
31 AUG 39
Purveyor General to Colonial Secreting
StongKong 6th July, 1889
Copy
Sir.
Rae
Colony.
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my arrival in the
u
* May, His Excelency
the Governor was pleased to inform
that owing to the circumstanc attending the retirement of my predecessor, the absence on leave of two Enquireers, and other causes, I should find the work in arrear, and: the Department undermanned,
taking into consideration the large
and in portant works, either sauchoud or contemplated, which it would be nec
necessary to carry out. The great storm of the 29-30 May, unprecedented I believe, in the history of the Colors, both as regards the amount of rainfal
and