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this lot in particular,
to be excessive - and as
the appoint.
the Committee in
the object of
of question
ment
а
was
to obtain
general settlement
of
the land question, and to
put
a
stop to the continual
reference of
isolated cases
to the Secretary of State,
eve
were not, we
confess,
expect
that
would so
ooon
prepared to
Lord Grey
have been called on
to consider a case
of
again this
1
nature. We have before
stated that we
can
scarcely
scarcely venture to pronounce
an
opinion
om
this case in
opposition to the unanimous
recommendation
of
the
local fovernment - but
we must add, that the present papers do not appear
to
мо
to shew
any strong
grounds for that recommendation, and that we cannot but apprehend
that this
case,
if
conceded, will form
a
precedent which will be very injurious ultimately to the Colonial Revenue_
and which must at once
neutralize