and public works - a sum which under ordinary circumstances it would be difficult to expend here.
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But of late there has been little doing in public works, and there are now a number of undertakings which can no longer be delayed. The roads throughout the Island, with the exception of a few miles on each side of Victoria, are impassable except to persons on foot. Police Stations and school houses are much required. The overcrowded state of the Jail renders it imperative that the extension, only lately commenced, should be urged forward with the utmost dispatch.
And the sufferings from want of water experienced by the inhabitants of this densely crowded town during the last year is a matter of paramount importance at once to attempt a remedy for this grievous evil.
I shall, of course,