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funds, I have continued to direct their transmission to the brown.

Agents for investment. Looking to

I

see no

the current revenue, necessity for Keeping large balances

uninvested in the hands of the brown Agents.

11.

since

I had long consulted the Legislative Council as from whence the cost

to the source.

of the Typhoon breakwater might- properly be obtained; and the decision

to which Your Lordship has now come, that the

be taken

that the money may from the Special Fund, is in entire of the

accordance with the views

Council, and the recommendation I

submitted.

75447

submitted to Lord barnarvon when transmitting the plans and particulars of the work in despatch N.163 of the 29ud of November,

Story by 18791.

15.

Your Lordship

my

seems

to think that a return of Public

Works

given

in Mr. Tonnochy's

Se despatch N.45 of the 17th of October,

20395

1881, was the

first

intimation.

conveyed to Your Lordship that this work had been taken in hand

and was

being actually in process

of construction. Six months, however, before Mr. Tonnochy transmitted the return, I had written to Your Lordship in despatch marked "General"

of