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were included in the estimated for the present year and the Colony is practically committed to their cost. Most of them moreover have been Convienced and it would have been false economy to have stopped their further progress.
There are however, a few to which I will refer as not contained in the estimates for 1890.
One is that of further Prison accommodation. I have in my despatch No. 334 of the 16th of September last so fully explained to Your Lordship what my opinion on this question is, that it is unnecessary to repeat it here. Although the Unofficial Members unanimously agreed to strike out the amount I proposed for this object on the grounds mentioned by them, they are prepared to admit, as shown