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nostructions. The general question is very important ones_the_ minor question of whether r good price be offered for mus
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vessel seems utterly insig ficant by comparison.
in
12 to the meantime however
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? though from the nature " present illness, I have been obliged to observe closer confinement & more absoluti rest of late than six months ass; I trust the danger is passing away & that I may fairly hope to be able to present
smyself within a reasonable period at the Colonial Office for transaction of business & to ascertaine Ford Kimberley's final wisher on the general question before
resemming my
administration
it Hong Kong.
13.
You will observe that II
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have not develt on the collateral benefits which may arise to # . M . service & to the Colony from possession of such a
Such beusfits are
sufficiety the
sobrious, & probably should
not les lost sight of altogether although of themselves not contributing reason suffi-
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cient to sway the actuat decision of the larger question, 14 I shall of course warn with great pleasure that 4. M. Covernment without further delay can decide to allow employment of "the "Victoria" at the expense
of the License Fund & also to expend some of that Hand on the procurement of Inspec tors
of character & capacity. from England. Eevertheless of a decision question is to be adjourned for the present, I would
on such
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