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•harring aboridoried any idea of staking legal proceedings against the Government, and that therefore as be the Governor does with the Attorney General to whom the papers had been referred that the matter had becon a question of policy rather than law - the question for the Council to consider was whether the Government should accede to the plaintiff's proposal to submit the case to arbitration.
Disenssions in which the Honourable the Colonel Commanding the troops (Colonel Stuart) differs from the Acting Colonial Secretary (the Honourable J. M. Price) that the damage was not owing to the bursting of the drain which ran under the house and had been faultly constructed by Government.
Since however the Colonel formed his opinion from verbal and personal observation only, and had not seen the Surveyor General's report nor the other papers on which the Acting Colonial Secretary's view of the case was based, it is resolved that before arriving at any definite conclusion on the matter all the papers be forwarded for the perusal of the Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops.