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2. I would however beg leave to
invite Your Lordship's attention to the
protest
Aus
affording
a fresh illustre-
on
which
-tion of the determination,
I commented in
mny
Confidential
Despatch of December 6th
1892, of
Sov
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the Unofficial members (or rather of
them who unfortunately has
one of them
for the present the means of Carrying his colleagues with him
even against their better judgement)
to attempt to make Government either
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ridiculous
or
impossible, with a
View to bringing about an
alteration
in the constitution of the Colony.
3.
In Whitehead, who is the
real author of the motion for
the reduction of salaries, declared
in October 1890 (vide Stauward
1890-91 page 9) that the finances
of the Colony might
as
might be regarded
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"fairly satisfactory", and "that the Public would be very glad that the Secretary of State had sanctioned a "considerable increase" in official
Since then the revenue
Salaries.
has increased, and the continued depreciation of silver has considerably
reduced the purchasing power of the official salaries.
It is singular
that while in other Eastern Colonies.
measures
art
being considered for
Compensating Officials for this
further depreciation, in Hongkong
the reduction
where