that your Excellene, and Ms Fort are both in error in supposing that this Government is financially as flourishing as you represent it, and that the creation of those Light Houses can be easily undertaken by it.– Such a work as the creation of three Light Houses–two of them off Cape, and one at their expense as their annual maintenance would be utterly beyond the means of the Colony, even if the places on which their creation is suggested had been within instead of without the territorial jurisdiction of this Government.
10.
To make this clearer I am obliged reluctantly to disclose that at the moment from want of funds the most important Sanatory works for obtaining an adequate supply of water and to complete some necessary drainage have had to be suspended, whilst the Colony has actually been obliged to borrow money to carry on its administrative duties.
11.
It is to be hoped that the measures adopted for that purpose will ere long enable the Colony to right itself, but there are so many immediate pressing local wants to be met, that I can scarcely look forward to a time when it would be justifiable to employ funds of the Colony on works to be constructed.