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say

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the least of it, that while

baing

taken in those

Colonies to comparate the civil

servants for their loss

by

the.

further depreciation of silver, the opportunity should be

Hongkong

seized ni

to move.

the reduction of official sa- laries, and the fall in silver

urged

av A

reduction!

11.

for such

Paragraph.

l 10 states.

my

that I have admiffed in

- address that the firrancial

position

position is not entirely satisfacty

and that the necessity for

and retrenchment.

I am

is imperative, d'aux of opinion. that in the absence of a loan

for

the public works extraordi. nary the financial position

is not satisfactory.

for that purpose is

that a loan

abs

absoutely

and immediately necessary,

and that when the loan has

been raived the

ozition will

pozition

be satisfactory. I may add

that the revenice

prospects Save

interinly