10. With a view to placing additional information before Your Grace I referred Lord Carnarvon's Despatch to the Surveyor General with instructions to give the subject such further information as Your Grace might probably require. I enclose his report, which more fully explains the obvious injustice of prohibiting the inhabitants of a city so peculiarly situated from having access to their harbor, unless for reasons of paramount and obvious importance.
11. In reference to the sanitary considerations involved, they are so extensive that nothing effective can be done except by combined action on the part of the Colonial, Military, and Naval authorities. So long as the General transmits plans for occupying one part of the foreshore, and the Naval authorities plans for dealing with another portion, whilst contrary to the spirit of Her Majesty's Regulations this Government is kept in the dark as to the nature and scope of those plans, it must be evident to Your Grace that the chances are diminished of any combined effort sufficient to effect an improvement which I make bold to say is of equal moment to all.
12. The lapse of time, by filling up the foreshore with the debris and filth discharged by the Military Nullah and other drains, is perhaps pressing forward the period when the necessity for such combined action as I suggest must be acknowledged as a remedy for evils which become intolerable.
13. In the meantime I suggest that I have clearly shown in my Despatch No. 178 the ...
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