That proposal has after much debate been finally withdrawn.
There is also reason to doubt the views of the principal medical officers as to the eligibility of Mr Duddell's lot as being more central than the present site. It certainly is more central in one sense, being nearer the centre of a map of the town, but not as central in another and more important sense, because it is not nearer the population for whose aid the Civil Hospital is principally intended.
Therefore it must be conceded that eventually it would have been better if the Government had never given notice of resumption of Mr. Duddell's lots, No 15 of 20 Feb. 1869, to have been enabled to abandon that notice, on Mr. Duddell's expressing dissatisfaction at the price fixed.
Nevertheless from the peculiarly commanding and important position occupied by the ground in question, it may be doubted whether after all it is not foreseeable that the