CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 203

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in office, the Earl

as wad

of Kimberley and Lort Derby, se forcibly and,

thought, so successfully. safeguarded the interests of Phong trong

in this matter, that

it was universally taken for granted here that the question shad received its final settlement

regards any increase, and

add that from all I

on that

as

I may

can learn it was

understanding, and on that alone, that the Colonial Legislature consented, and consented

very

reluctantly

reluctantly, to pay the present

contribution from

very large

our

comparatively small Revenue

towards the cost of the mail

Service.

4.

ad

s by

For it is regarded here

etter of

no means a matter

certainty that the advantage

quogained by the Colony from the

contract with Peninsular and Oriental Company is worth even the present subsidy, in view of the fact there arrive in the Port

of Victoria from Europe

that

some

two

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