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reputation having been so severely attacked and his influence damaged by M. Anstey's attacks still finding echoes in our infamous public press.
the loss
of Mutford would be irreparable. I have, and my personal solicitations to detain him here.
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I have in an earlier part of this report referred to the question of the removal of the gaol concurring with the opinion of the Colonial Secretary that the present site should not be abandoned. There will be the means of enlargement, and to some extent of classification and though there is
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way of change, there have been notable improvements in Gaol management during the last two years to which I can bear personal testimony.
The Acting Colonial Surgeon's Report makes suggestions to which becoming attention will no doubt be paid. He is quite right in stating that the Registers of Deaths - and the same may be said of births and marriages - are in an unsatisfactory state. I had some conversation with the Bishop on the subject and he assured me he was by no means contented with the existing state of things and the attention