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To make any definite recommendation for the post, until it is known whether Mr Mitchell-Innes and Mr Wodehouse will return to the Colony, I have the honour to transmit to you for your information a copy of the enclosed correspondence which had passed between this Office and Mr Wodehouse, from which you will observe that Mr Wodehouse's leave has been extended until April next and that there is no reason to suppose that he now contemplates retiring from the service.
You will therefore request that I submit to you my recommendations for filling the Postmaster Generalship on the assumption that both Mr Mitchell-Innes and Mr Wodehouse will return to Hong Kong, and further that I submit to you alternative recommendations on the assumption that Mr Mitchell-Innes will not return.
Presumably by the time your recommendations reach...
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