399

with

any important work without

serious misgivings, and a conviction

great misfortune

and the

analyses of

the

professional

analyzer at the Maint and also of the bolonial Singeon give from 11 to

that the Public will not

get

their money

economically laid out.

CL

cent

CH

57.

to a bolony like this in financial difficulties.

156. The eiverumstance to which I allude Jallude

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was the quality of the mortar used in construction of the large Gool at Stone butter's Island, which I found

nearly completed

was

visiting the

ow

my

arrival. I

place and was struck

by the inferior appearance of the Mortar

in use i

it

was

I took a sample of it- and

analyzed and reported

Some

bring "Mud not matar. I got better from another part of the Building

of

17per

lime in the different samples.

I then referred to the contruct and

found that 50 per cent lime

quantity stipulated for.

and

was the

to be paid for by the Public. I called on the Surveyor General for explanation

as he must either have been.

guilty

of great carelepness in supervising the

of connivance at the Contractors

work

ov

fraud. Mr Wilson all through showed the utmost callousnefs, though the ease was one in which most persons naturally have been extremely sensitive. He actually difwaded bolonel Lovell,

would

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