excavated should be removed to the
harbour, and as there are no Carts or
cattle available for Fransport at this station, I consider the services, in their amounts duly estimated for
ar e
In the detail of the arrangement for removing the soil, I conclude provision will be made le secure sufficient for
to
mortar. The Report upon the Estimatë
should have contained the mode proposed
for the execution of the service.
I return the Report and Estimate
and the two tracings.
I have, de
S Signed /
Edward Mdrich, Majov.
Comm R. & Sup" # Engineer.
Frue Copy
Mame Off & Colonial Secretary.
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Mony
King
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Victoria, Honghong,
4th September, 1846
I regret to state that I have * ! _ _ received the enclosed letter from M2
+ Sterling, Attorney General for this Colony,
-forwarding a certificate, (alse enclosed), prom= the Colonial Surgeon, by which it appears
threatening
Videb
that an
an
attack of the eyes, the
erjes,
blindness, renders it absolutely necessary that Mr Sterling should proceed to England.
I need hardly observe that the want
oof
a
of an official legal adviser of the Colonial Government will be severely felt until substitute can be found for Mr. Sterling, and this want is likely to be aggravated by the circumstance of there being,
The Right Honorable,
W. E. Gladstone, M. P.
te
no
Barrister