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3
31
Jolars per annum being
Att
increase
of Leventy three thousand a year
on the present Farm'
2.
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Despatch. 1/60
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Your
of the 14th November 1877 and 1167 of the yo 27th November 17%, I submitted to the
statement I had
Carl & Carnarvon a
put
betore the Legislative Council respecting the Financial reconnces of this Colony in which I expreped the Spinion that
the Spinn Farm had been eriously
undersold.
I explained, at some
length, why I thought the sum
$132,000
a year
吓
for which the Farm
had been sold for three
March 1876
years from
was not it's real value,
159/14.
track from Hong Kong
the 24614_fovente 18/7
and I ventured to anticipate that in
1879
when I might have
opportunity
of dealing with it, a cubstantial
addition to the revenue
revenue might
posibly, be secured. As, however, I find no reference to the subject in any of the Despatches I have hat the hour of receiving from the Colonial Office, I take the liberty of enclosing an extracts from
for your information,
the printed statement. I submitted in 1877 to Lorch Carnarvon.
3.
The privilege of dealing
in
prepared Opinen has now been sold from the 28th February 1879 to the 28th February 1882 for