the original scheme.
$
A
so
proposal.
however, is
made in this correspondence to the effect that if
if the Colony
would provide the Sums the
Chin we Government would execute the works and maintain the Lights at their
b.
own cost.
This offer I laid before my
Executive Council, and
requested the
concurrence
of three
of the
unofficial Members of the Legislative Council (Messrs Ryrie, Raveltt,
and Whittall) whose advice under
such circumstances
was
valuable. Consideration
to Mr Mart's letter which
especially
was
Luftman: 4. 26 March, 1873.
shortly asking the Colony to sink $78,000 in Light houses or
Foreign
Imperial or local Government.
Joint;
over which neither the
would have
any
control. I also
a.
Memorandum
laid before it
(Copy enclosed) from Mr Harbour Master as to the best places in
our
7
juris
diction to erect Lights.
I have now the honor
to report to Your Lordship that
we
are
unanimously of opinion
that the Light-houses suggested in
Mr Thomson's Memorandum should be erected. In that decision;
I
am
confirmed by the approval
of the Admiral, to whom I