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by Mr. Whitehead in a letter which he recently addressed to the~ London Times.
By the last mail it
would appear that IW. Whitehead
has been addressing the Colonial
Party
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in one
of the Committee
Rooms in the House of Com- mone on the supposed grievances
of the Wongkong Taxpayer.
I desire to make a
a few
remarks on his speech upon
that occasion.
As an instance
of injustice" "Mr. Whitehead stated
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that the cost of administration
for 1895 would be about $800,000;
that in recent
and was still
years
it had risen
Mr
expanding.
Whitehead in making that state- ment must have known that this increase is principally owing
to the fall in silver and that the cost of salaries and emoluments
is
now is
considerably less than at
(See para
was even 20
years ago.
graph 68 of my despatch N. 901 of
4th September 1894).
Mr. Whitehead added that
that
the