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what had taken place at die aforesaid interview. In his opinion it was a sudden resolution on the part of W Davis, aiming apparently at transferring the negotiations to London, but in order to avoid any further delay the notice to M.Sharp has now been sent by the last mail as requested in W Davis letter and there the matter now rests for the present. -
Neither I nor the Commanding Royal
Engnicer
that
are under the least appréhension any fury could very materially alter the Surveyor General's figures (as given in the valuation hereto attached
and so
important
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and marked "C") the acquisition of the property that I
bust
any
not unreasonable increase
in the amount of purchase money,
will be willingly submitted to Sharp's contention that the object of the Government
in peauning proprietorship is not a legitimate one and does not fulfill a
"public purpose" under the meaning of
¡Course
av
the conditions of lease is of _matter for consideration of the Government,
but I would remark that at this
great
mmportant commercial port the recent agitation in the Colony shows very clearly that in the estimation of the Public the most important, of all public works to be carried out are the defensive works
for the protection of the Colony from
aggression from without or pedition
ove
from within
the part of the dense Chinese population amounting to 160,000
people.
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