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by Mr. Whitehead in a letter which he recently addressed to the~ London Times.

By the last mail it

would appear that IW. Whitehead

has been addressing the Colonial

Party

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in one

of the Committee

Rooms in the House of Com- mone on the supposed grievances

of the Wongkong Taxpayer.

I desire to make a

a few

remarks on his speech upon

that occasion.

As an instance

of injustice" "Mr. Whitehead stated

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that the cost of administration

for 1895 would be about $800,000;

that in recent

and was still

years

it had risen

Mr

expanding.

Whitehead in making that state- ment must have known that this increase is principally owing

to the fall in silver and that the cost of salaries and emoluments

is

now is

considerably less than at

(See para

was even 20

years ago.

graph 68 of my despatch N. 901 of

4th September 1894).

Mr. Whitehead added that

that

the