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"the danger pointed out by Captain Barry has actually recurred within the preceding nine months, and a fatal accident at the same place in 1865, he neither visited the place himself nor directed the Clerk of Works to do so, nor gave any orders on the subject for ten days subsequently. This at least may be inferred from the evidence of Machado, the Overseer of Convicts, whom His Excellency examined on the 8th instant in his Office in the presence of Mr. Dird, and who stated that Mr. Dird had not spoken to him on the subject till the 28th. Victims at the earlier order to...