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two first quarters of 1885 the position of affairs
was indeed to use the expression of
the Colonial Freasurer momentous" and
is well illustrated by the following extract-
from
a letter before adverted to and addressed
by the Acting Judge of the bomb to the
Colonial Treasurer
"By a
on
the 30th
May 1865.
30th of May
Return I have been given today
it appears that out of 72 Warrants given
them to serve, they were able to exceente £2
only,
in 21 cases there were no
goods
lö
-
distrain in 20 the parties could not be
the houses had been
found,
while in
pulled down"
q
"Mr. Avetoom the Bailiff also reports
that in a
great many
cases the parties
whom he has been directed to serve un
with