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Arvan

wage

have very

considera

ably

riven and all articles imported

imported from

Non

J

Aian countries have become

very greatly dearer, while the

demande on the Governor's hospitality

these latter that for well-known

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reasons their entertainment in unach

larger proportion than formerly.

Swolon on the Governer. dwolves

7.

order

to illustrate what

have inconcised several - fold-

rok

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by because of the far larger

is thus involved; I may mention

that in the six months which have

number of resident who are in a

:tion to be entertained at

position to be

Lovernment House, but because there

in the number of distinguished

qush to

elapsed since

my

arrival, there

have been entertained at.

my

table

and without

(exclusively of Staff,

purely

reference to social invitations

to receptions

or

danow and other evening parties)

has been

aw sven

greater

ter increase/

~

visitors to the Colony;

and I may

regard

bo

yet.

I have

these

mention morcover with

-over

four hundred possons, and

by

no means exhausted

the

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