in this climate, will occasion considerable_
expence..
repairs to Bridges
on account. of repairs
and Reads, as it happened at a time when
sone
to be
of these
were only partly finished-
The striking overcome in this
and obvious difficulties folony, arising from
were not in some
de groe
the mountainous and rocky character of the surface, if they compensated by the plenty and cheapness of Chinese labour... and the
:bility of the Laboure
occasione
spirit and
the labourers would have_
a
-
much heavier. expenditure_
than the above. Major Aldrich informs
me
that in all his experience he
never
met with such intelligent, and clever workmen as the Chinese; and that in. some_ cases, where a less expensive mode
of executing
a more
their
AL
expensive..
own
work would have sufficed,
one has been adopted at
charge, rather than be
surpassed
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surpassed by other contractors.
The conclusion of Your Lordship's Seepatch- under reply alludes to the reported probability of a portion of the_ building for the Registrar's office" bring recupied by the Registror himself residence. A different arrangement
however, has been made-- will serve partly for
office lower floor
as well
as the
Do
building
the Harbor Master's
Re
Registrar's, and the
will be the Post Office, for
which last a rent
of £ 150 per
Y
Annum
will be paid to the Colony.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most - Obedrent
Stumble Servant,
Mani