587
694
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Account. I have, therefore, the honour to request your authori-
-ty both for constructing the line and for the proposed method
of financing it. In anticipation of your approval, I have
instructed Mr. Lindsey to proceed at once with the plate-laying
along that part of the road which has been already completed.
It is important to push on the work while this Government still
possesses the services of Mr. Lindsey and of a Staff trained
by the construction of the main-line.
9.
1
Since the above paragraphs of this
Despatch were written in February last, work has temporarily
been suspended owing to certain difficulties of gradient and
alignment at the Au Ha Gap, but a solution of these difficulti-
-es is now in sight and will not, I anticipate, cause any
excess over the original estimates.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
Bugar
Governor,&c..
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