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Green Island, and Inos Kanemit of the Appointment entered into, in the absence of Dr. Archibald Baird, the person selected.
At the suggestion of the Board, Dr. Baird attended at the Trinity House for a fortnight and was placed under the instruction of light keepers in order that he might gain experience of the recent Sautre Lamps &c. and the various descriptions and in their proper management; and he subsequently proceeded to the Works of Messrs Chance Brothers for a similar period to acquire a knowledge of the apparatus now being manufactured by them so that he might be the better qualified to assist in fitting it together on his arrival in the Colony.
2. Baird had been provided with a passage in the Steamer Montgomery, expected to leave London on the 7th March, by which vessel the whole of the apparatus for the Cape D'Aquilar Light had been shipped, but at the last moment the owner of the vessel, a member of Parliament, declined to take the stores on board on the ground that he would be liable to penalties for infringing an Act of Parliament prohibiting Members...