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by way of improving the light and ventilation extra window to my
while it
was in
progress
and whenever I
my
of the latter, to add
happened to pass the leonvent door on
Anore
than
Government inspections, could not have amounted in the aggregate to a few hours. The miserable insignificance of this diminutive little job, to say nothing of the helplessness of the persons to whom.
an
act of
Common
charity
was
being
done,
should have exempted it from Mr. Wilson's
list.
10.
The work at the Hermitage
was as
-unimportant. The Hermitage is my private
residence, it is the third villa on the south
Iside
of Caine Road. I have tenanted it..... since 1874. Last year
I obtained my
landlord's
permission to remove a small and useless
billiard room adjoining my.
dining
Toom
an
library and to repair some smoky chimneys
My landlord
was
good enough to say he
would leave me the alterations to
carry out
entirely as I wished, provided I did not
exceed a certain sum.
I employed
intelligent bricklayer in lieu
and the work was
in a
11.
few
weeks.
of ar
an
architect
completed to my satisfactio
The fourth item refers to the large and important Dock works on the Howloong -side of the Harbour, designed and finished
by Mr Wilson in 1875 and which timbled down shortly after their completion entailing heavy on the leosmopolitan Dock Company and complete ruin on the firin
loss