hands
of
the Crown Agents by their Inspecting Engineer, from
which the inference appears to
have been drawn that Mr.
Frange, the resident Engineer of the Tytam Water Works, was improperly concerned in
local project for manufacturing
Cement, and had an
in de
interest
depreciating the quality of the Cement forwarded by the Crown Agents.
2
I at once directed
the Acting Attorney-General
(Mr Ackroyd), and the Treasurer (Mr. Lister), to make a
careful
investigation into this matter, and to report to me the
results; and I have
now
the
honour to forward to you
9th Feby 1887.79 of
the report received
from these gentlemen.
3.
I remember some
time in the early part of
last
year having been informed by the Acting Colonial Secretary (Mr. Stewart) that he had noticed in the morning paper