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sanction to the Officer Commanding
the Engines to use his discretion in
blowing up
buildings for the pompose
of checking the progress of the flames,
but iture
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long interval after I had despatched a mounted Trooper
to the Artillery Barracks with the
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requisite orders from the Officer Commanding
before the necessary powder was procured.).
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also much time
subsequently occupied, at least, in the earlin part of the night, in using the powder when it had arrived.
Finally at & A.M. having auctiorized, the destruction of a large block of buildings, to interrapt the live of five spreading then to the
Wistward I had the satisfaction of
seeing
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check given to the conflagration
before I left the ground).
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On the whole however, the Community must now be satisfied)
that a greater unity of action is I
desirable in
such
cases, as at present the various Engines coved by private
parties cannot be directed either by the Governor or by any one Head
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are
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A disinclination to subunit-
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was the principal
why the formation of a que Brigade which I reported as being
in progress after the fire of lant spear fill iterough aborquently. I. hope this recent
occurrence) will