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rather have avoided) . My difficulties

therefore may

not improbably prove

d of the Rentals

greater in regard of

becoming due in Eecember. The Blockade of the Canton River having the effect of driving

trade to Macao_

eruch of out

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161.

given

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the amount

anxious to have

of

the probable

receipts and disbursements during

the present halfyear, but cannot-

do so with

with any

any degree of certainty,

and I am for many

reatened

any accurate

unable to give any

Estimate

of

the deficiency of

the

Revenue for the present half year as compared with the Expenditure, otherwise than by stating. I roughly calculate the probable expenditure at £28,000. and the Revenue at #17000 a probable deficiency of

£11.000

Shewing

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