VB & 1 (x)—671 ---3000-10-89
Governor.
No.
Reming 352
Date.
1890 Sep. 27
Last previous Paper.
39 15439
89
Hongkong
No. 21442
(Subject.)
DESPATCH.
814
C.O.
2144
Reg. 4w.go
Return of Securities
for 1890
Cement
257.7 Nov.
Subsequent Paper
6966.
(Minutes.)
W. Meade
? Reply that if there was (as there is no Evidence in the Audit Office that W. Lister had actually made a proper Inspection required by the Circular dated 25th March 1884, then the Return might have been signed by the present Auditor with a note to that effect, & that if there was any reason to think that the Inspection had not been fully made, then it ought to have been