and that important & that
the Colony
is able to bear
the expense.
I I am glad to learn that
the receipts of the Locala
Revenues for
the
pist
eleven
months exceeded the estimated
Revenue
ly
$164,000, as I
gathered from the Estimates for
1899 that the bedcare
excess
woats for the whole
year would
be but little over half that
amount.
3 At the same time Inga
298
as pounted out in my Despulch
No 332
of the 231d alto
the Revised Expenditure for 1898
shows
aw
execu
over
original
Estimate
the
of
au
wel
ater amount and
greater
there cires.
uu des
I regret that. I
cannot Samantato consider
construction of
the
this road until
I learn posariens from your
reply
to that Despatch what
proposals you may
have to