the points now raised,
request
which I expect you
ta
furnish after refertact
to your farmail) without further delay.
9. In your Dispatch No. 16
of the 14th November 1877
?
you pointed out that
you
had submitted the Estimate
1878 to the Finance
for 1878
Committee before dealing
with them in the Legis.
·lative Council, your
reason for doing So being as you stated in your speech that
You wished on the first
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the
Estimates to be guided
by the greater
local
experience, which the
Merabus
of
that com-
・mittee hossessed;
and in your
late last finan.
cial statement which
you itseve that having
four? the plan in
question world well,
you
Wante adopted it again
in preparing
the Estimate
for 1879
After due considuation
find
of this point I am