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6. RECO

Superintendent, HongKong

Alsar 1885

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"Governor writes that Council decided "that in present depressed state "Colonial Revenue, impossible Colony give substantial contribution towards direct

"cable to Singapore which is desirable

for Imperial rather than for Colonial; for Naval and Military rather than for commercial interest."

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