this community requesting that the Legislative Council
may
be moved to vote a compassionate allowance for the benefit of the
children of the late Colonial Treasurer and Postmaster
1. General, Mr. Lister.
2
I believe it to be
true that
for several years past Mr. Lister did support, not only his
children, but several relatives who were entirely dependent
on him, and that he was thus prevented from making such a provision for his family
as he would otherwise have been able to do.
3.
As regards Mr. Lister's public services I have, in previous despatches, expressed my opinion of the zealous and painstaking
manner in which, during a period of nearly twenty-five years,
he rendered, in various capacities