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predecessor.
3.
As this scheme.
will cost the Colony nothing, and as two_ departments out of three
favour it, I
appear
to
will not stand in the~
way of its adoption, though
foresee that great difficulties
likely
occur
are
if the Colonial
to
Government is asked to
effect the resumption of Tharp's Lots -_- not only with
the
the lessee, but with the~ Chinese housed on the Lots,
who in
not a source
4.
are
i my opinion
of danger. It is therefore
natural that I should
adhere to the opinion
expressed
in my despatch
above referred to, as, -
to the rapid sitting
owing
up of the foreshore
on the Military
abutting
and Naval Establishments,
the reclamation in
front
of