tried, would prove a certain failure.
4.
Coming to (2) the -
principal object of this despatch I should mention in the first instance that the want of additional space for the building of European dwellings in connection with the Town
i
of Victoria is very great indeed. Owing to the searcity of houses,
and the enormous rents
consequently demanded, very
many persons who under
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favourable conditions -
would naturally occupy
tenements
of
their
own, are
obliged to be content with
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lodgings in crowded streets, or even compelled to
live in Chinese houses,
suffering thereby
in health and comfort, not to mention the loss so caused to the rate-
revenue of the Colony.
5.
"If, as
: as I earnestly hope,
a settlement should shortly br reached of the long-vexed
question