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202
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necessarily few.
Under Military Expenditure I have deemed it
an increase.
desirable to provide of $7000 for Expenses of Volunteers in view of the proposal to raise a Corps of Maxim Gun Volunteers which I hope
out.
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soon to see carried
With regard to ~
Public Works Extraordinary,
there are
few
items appearing
in these Estimates which are
new
new
As explained in the last paragraph of my despatch ~ N: 364 of the 10th altemo I have provided for the cost of connecting the Gap Rock Lighthouse with Victoria by telegraph. The sum in
in question is virtually merely a loan ~ from the revenues
of the Colony,
which will ultimately ber
re-couped from the dues levied upon shipping in respect of this improvement.
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