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the Mount Austin Hotel by the Military Authorities for the purposes of Barracks.
I also annex a copy of Encl: 2. 5th July, 1897. General Black's report upon that Petition.
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The Hotel, of which I enclose a photograph, situated - some 1400 feet above sea level- at the Victoria Peak on the road leading from the Tramway terminus to the Signal Station and commands extensive views to the North and to the South.
It has recently been considerably enlarged by the proprietors, Messrs John D. Humphreys and Son, at a cost of $100,000 and contains, in addition to an excellent ball-room, dining rooms, reading rooms, and recreation rooms and some seventy bedrooms generally.
It is, as the Petitioners state, especially sought after as a place of residence and as a health...
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