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abu.

undantly appear from the above references that the subject has been before the public and the Mercantile community

for a very

considerable

time, and I venture to

| say

that if the Bill referred

to above was introduced

some what hurriedly..

I

was

simply owing

and that he

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was anxious.

before he left the Colony to deal finally with a

with a question

which had been discussed

without practical outcome for a number of years.

I may mention

6.

that the form which

the Bill took was

it

great

to

the fact that the departure of dir G. William Des Vaux

was

-precipitated by illness,

and

measure

suggested in a

by

a memorandum.

from M. J.J. Keswick, copy

abril of which is enclosed.

1891. 7

Finally

I would

add

mel: 4.