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[centred, in red ink] Benches
[oval stamp, left of centre]
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, QUEENSLAND
10464 [tick]
22. NOV. 89.
[right of page] PM Cooktown
[written diagonally] Away
[in red ink] Missionaries at Cape Bedford have
applied for Police
[centre of telegram] Electric Telegraph, Queensland.
[upside-down oval stamp on right]
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH OFFICE
No. S 57
BRISBANE
[Wd]s. 32
[Am]t. 2/10 OHMS
From Cooktown____h.__1___6m.
Dated 21_____11______1889.
MESSAGE for U Col Secy
BRISBANE.
Missionaries at Cape Bedford sent
in for police Blacks very
troublesome owing to heavy rains
Country impassable so after conferring
with Inspr Murray have engaged
boat to send police up
by water
[signed] Hugh Milman
PM
248
[written diagonally on left]
Approved
[initials] B.D.M.
_______
23/11/89
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