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fears that : the Receipts of the
your will only
amount to
£27000 instead of £31078,
as was
anticipated in
framing
the Estimate for Parliament,
and he also has received
Estimates from the Engineers Department, by which it
would appear that the Public Works actually in progress will cost nearly £28,000. Lord Grey regrets
the embarrassment which is
this likely to be felt by Governor Bonham from circumstances, all of which have been beyond his control. At the same time
adverting
to the principle
above stated, that it is better
to spread the progress of
Buildings and other
improvements over a
period
of moderate length instead of compressing the execution
of the whole into a
single
year,
—
Lord Grey
would not
have been disposed to view
it as a
serious inconvenience in itself if these
facts led to the suspension
of such of the works as
would best admit of being
postponed
So long as the
Colony depends for such purposes on aid from home,
it