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found nearly finished, I on the 22nd May reported the -matter for Your Lordship's information, and I beg to express my regret that under the circumstances above explained Your Lordship's approval to the undertaking was not obtained before the - preliminaries
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were set on
happens,
It so however, that for various
Causes
causes the agreement with the Telegraph Company for laying the cable has not yet been signed; and though I feel that the Colonial Government is morally if not legally bound to carry.
out its
agreement with the Company, I have arranged with them for the actual signature to be delayed and the work to be postponed, until I can receive Your Lordship's
approval - which in order to
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