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improvements.
The Community are deeply grateful to His Excellency for having promptly, after his arrival, taken up the question of retrenchment ignored by his immediate predecessors, for his effective economies.
already effected, and for those promised, but I think he will find that they will still prefer, with the Secretary of State, an independent and public enquiry, as more effective and more far-reaching than any merely departmental investigation.
I have &c.
15. 4. Whitehead
Hon: G. J. M. OBrien,
Colonial Secretary
No 1258.
Copy 16732
Colonial Secretary's Office
Hong Kong, 29th August 1893
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Sir,
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 26th instant, and to inform you that it will be transmitted to the Secretary of State.
I have &c.
G. J. M. OBrien
Colonial Secretary
J. Fr. Whitehead