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will be given daily (except Sundays) by dropping a Ball from Her Majesty's Receiving Ship "Victor Emanuel. The Finance Committee have voted

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of $30 a month to be paid to the officer who will be charged with these duties, and I beg to submit this vote for Your Lordship's

approval.

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gather from Your Lordship's instructions that sometime will probably elapse before sanction is given for the construction of an Observatory, and in the meantime the arrangement now made, which suggested by the Harbour Master in his amual Report will

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prove a great boon to Masters of vessels calling at this Post. The Tytam

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Water Works, the new trison, Central School etc. will more than absorb

all the available balances, and a loan will probably have to be effected.

Under these circumstances it seems

me that Bonghong should not be

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to

to defray the whole cost of

an

Observatory which will be institution of Imperial rather than of

Colonial interest.

I have the honour to be

My Lord,

Your Lordship's Most Obedient Bremble dervant, Mellanh

Administrator

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