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either event, nor, I presume, were Heydon or Edmunds, or any of the Anti-Mannixites.  I have no complaint whatever to make on that score, but it is a little inconsistent to be asking me for favours on the other days of the week.

Both the Papal Delegate, & Archbishop Kelly wrote to me to convey their sympathy to the family generally on the occasion of poor Bryan's death, & I confess I was agreeably surprised.

Sydney has been gay in its welcome to General Pau & the French Mission last week, but none of us have been at the entertainments, so I have not even seen him.  There was a great welcome by the Lord Mayor, a reception at Government House, and another at the Australia by the French Australian League, to all of which we were invited, not to mention numerous dinners, &c.

Another war loan (the Seventh) for another £40,000,000 was opened for subscription yesterday.  These will come twice a year now, & we have spent over £210,000,000 already.  Next week we are also to get a big increase in income & land taxes & customs duties.  I am not complaining.  The least which those who stay at home can do is to pay up cheerfully.  It simply doesn't count, when compared with what our boys have gone through & are going through for us.  Recruiting is not dead, though of course not what we would

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