was
the Legislative Council, to_ which Your Lordship attributes importance,
for special reasons unlit
unlikely to, and in -fact did not, cause inconvenience. The Estimates had been passed and sent home for your approval, and owing to the illness of the Surveyor-General, and several members of his staff, the Building Ordinance (the only Legislative
lative measure
at the moment under consideration,
9
which was li
likely to arouse
opposition
opposition)
was not
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-ready; while
on the other hand there were
ready sufficient to occupy several meetings of the Legislative Council, which being merely consolidations of existing statutes, (the work of the Law Revision Committee) were unlikely to create discussion. 16" Stewart, the Colonial
a number of bills, quite
asted
Secretary, who efficiently for me during my absence, held meetings of Council,