CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 19

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

indicating as it does,

the commercial prosperity

of Hong Kong.

2. I have also read and

Care fully

the cops of considered your

A

financial Statemeat,

which accompanied

the

despatch now under refl

and Ishall be glad to receive the Estimates for

the current year as soon

as

they have been reprinted

3. You

will have already

learnt from my telegram

Jeebruary

This was

a cifher hat May I think be alluded

q

the 28th letters

that

to.

:

да

am conable at the 17

present time to approve

of any reduction in the taxation of the colony,

Such as was suggested

in

your speech on the estimates, and I am

inclined to think that

Some considerable time

must clapse before the finances of Hongkong will

Suck

hermit of any such step

The proposal in question

is apparently based upon

the large amerent of balances,

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