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correspondence with the
War Office respecting the expenditure.
iture on the Defences
at Hongkong.
In my despatch
No 309 of 26th instant I
trust that I have
sufficiently explained how
the matter really stands.
2.
I would add here,
that the Military authorities claim that as the statement made in the concluding portion of the 3rd paragraph
of
19093 CI
of the Commanding Royal Engineer's Memorandum of the 13th of December, 1889, (which formed enclosures to my Confidential despatch of the 30th of April)
was allowed to pass unchallenged by the Colonial Government, this Government thereby gave its consent to the adoption
of a different rate of exchange (the market rate of the day) to that which
had