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of the year is approaching, and it is of the greatest importance that the
new Director assume his duties at an early period, if only to catch up the work where I left it and prevent that swaying of the pendulum in the wrong
direction, which is so apt to occur after any period of activity.
I hope to send you, in a few days, for the use of the Lauritius
Department, a set of the Interim Reports which I wrote at the request of his
Excellency the Governor.
Yours sincerely,
Ante Balga
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P.5. I do not return the copy of the paraphrased telegram from the Governor
of Hong Kong; as a matter of fact I have destroyed it.
H. R. Cowell, Esq.,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street, S. 7. 1.
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