CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 192

in this climate, will occasion considerable_

expence..

repairs to Bridges

on account. of repairs

and Reads, as it happened at a time when

sone

to be

of these

were only partly finished-

The striking overcome in this

and obvious difficulties folony, arising from

were not in some

de groe

the mountainous and rocky character of the surface, if they compensated by the plenty and cheapness of Chinese labour... and the

:bility of the Laboure

occasione

spirit and

the labourers would have_

a

-

much heavier. expenditure_

than the above. Major Aldrich informs

me

that in all his experience he

never

met with such intelligent, and clever workmen as the Chinese; and that in. some_ cases, where a less expensive mode

of executing

a more

their

AL

expensive..

own

work would have sufficed,

one has been adopted at

charge, rather than be

surpassed

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surpassed by other contractors.

The conclusion of Your Lordship's Seepatch- under reply alludes to the reported probability of a portion of the_ building for the Registrar's office" bring recupied by the Registror himself residence. A different arrangement

however, has been made-- will serve partly for

office lower floor

as well

as the

Do

building

the Harbor Master's

Re

Registrar's, and the

will be the Post Office, for

which last a rent

of £ 150 per

Y

Annum

will be paid to the Colony.

I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's,

Most - Obedrent

Stumble Servant,

Mani