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Liver has also been much disordered.

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So long ago as January Balfour strongly urged Mr. Rienaecher to apply for leave of absence to return

to Curope

organs;

on

and in

-count of the then

- serious derangement of the Digestive

April 1854, I was myself very anxious for him to leave the Colony for some months before

be should venture to remain over another summer.

Two more hot seasons have

now been passed but with each

there has been a Marked increase

both in the severity and duration of the symptoms, till, at last,

the constitution seems

mis scarcely. able to recover from them.

I therefore cons

consider it my bounden

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duty to urge Mr. Rienaceter to love obtaining the required

no time in

permission to return to Europe ( for a period not less than 18 months by the earliest possible opportunity, - if necessary, to sacrifice all considerations of official

or even

of official or pecuniary

interest, for the only

chance

recovering his health.

a.

of

(Argued) W. A. Harland. M.D.,

M. R. b. S. C.

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Colonial Secretary.