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already laid the papers before the Legislative Council, I propose defer asking the Members to vote the increased sum of £6000 until I shall have received further instructions from Your Lordship. I would venture to
urge a
further consideration of this ... subject, seeing that the Legislature has acted liberally in agreeing to vote £4,000 a year together with the payment of arrears at that rate; seeing also that great dissatisfaction would be caused
by
forcing a vote of a larger amount
of the Government Majority.
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As it has been observed by Lord Kimberley, Hongkong is almost
entirely inhabited and it's Revenue
contributed
by a
native population
which make's little or no use
of the
Mail Service, and which would
have no
objection to dispense with
it altogether. It would also ask Your
Lordship to consider in connection with this subject a further memorandum from the Colonial
Postmaster General, in which he calls
attention
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already laid the papers before the Legislative Council, I propose defer asking the Members to vote the increased sum of £6000 until I shall have received further instructions from Your Lordship. I would venture to
urge a.
further consideration of this ___ subject, seeing that the Legislature has acted liberally in agreeing to vote £4,000 a year together with the payment of arrears at that rate; seeing also that great dissatisfaction would be caused
by
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by forcing a vote of a larger amount
of the Government Majority.
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entirely inhabited and it's Revenue
contributed
by a
native population
which make's little or no use
of the
Mail Service, and which would
have no
objection to dispense with
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it altogether. It would also ask. Lordship to consider in connection with this subject a further memorandum from the Colonial ..
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Postmaster General, in which he calls
attention
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