"that Report at their houses and therefore he need not dwell on it now. He thought, however, that few could peruse that Report without arriving at a very painful conviction of the general incapacity of Mr. Moorson, and his want of administrative ability, and apparently of adequate professional acquirements to fill his present post with advantage to the Colony.
"Nevertheless, without going into those general questions - though in reality they were, and must be more or less behind all other topics - being themselves the most important of all - he wishes at present to draw the attention of Council merely to Mr. Moorson's prolonged disregard of certain positive orders issued to him for the preparation of certain Monthly Statements intended to elicit information as to the proposed expenditure of the Department for each month, and the state of the Public Works in progress at the time. There can be little doubt that this was a case of wilful disobedience - carried on in defiance of Executive and despite repeated warning during