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I have received a letter from
S%. T. Sercombe Smith,
Acting Postmaster General.
The Honourable,
The Acting Colonial Secretary
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Sir,
HongKong, November 20th, 1894.
Received
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In reply to your letter of the 13th November inst., I have now the honour to hand you, for the information of His Excellency the Governor and of the Executive Council, my answers and explanations in respect of the charges of carelessness and negligence made against me in that letter. As to the first charge, that embodied in the Acting Postmaster General's letter of complaint of the 18th August last, that the Japan mail by the
The Honourable
The Acting Colonial Secretary,
"Verona"