CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12] — Page 180

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I aholained from expressing my own forment hope to su Korea Sing hanged. If any (perhaps mistation) silence betrayed Mr Francis into want of cantion I sincerely regret it.

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on small paints which were not worth officialising. I could not

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