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a perisal) that the Department

Ared failed ( of

courses, through.

the

inadvertence), to lay before your predecessor a full statement of rent facts of the case, and ther documents proving those facts. It

appears that there has been a similar

inadvertiïve on the present occasion,

For, without referring to several of my despatches to the

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effect, it See

will probably be sufficient to

* See among

ausong others. Governor to Sea of Stut

W-123,294 and 410

of 1884.

quote the following paveage from the Speech with which I opened the last Session of the Hongkong Legislature;

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Give to Ser deltat 57044-5 W407 of 1884

Vull information with regard to the "Financial position of the Colony of the

" present time will be laid before you

in

"the Report of the Colonial Serrotary und "Auolitor General. The political and~. "other complications which have now

" for a considerable period affected

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yourully this quarter of the gloh, and

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experially the mighbouring Empire of

"China, ham exercised an

inflicence on trade

injurions.

aud comntice,

" and consequently the resources of

" this community.

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At is, however, believed

" that this depression will prove to be

only

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