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Reporting on the sailing of the cable ships, sending more clerks, with details of arrangements for getting them to their destinations and their pay etc; he has sent wire and insulators to Trinidad and written to Bernard to arrange 1,00 pole there; enclosing copies of letters concerning Martinique, St Thomas and Guadaloupe, Jamel concession, opposition of the Superintendent of the Cuba Government Telegraphs to their line; telegraphs free from tax now in Colombia; sending new chart with new sounding between Barbadoes [sic] and Trinidad; 600 miles of cable loaded on Dacia; and have agreed rates with the International Ocean Company for 10 word messages.