CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 143

excavated should be removed to the

harbour, and as there are no Carts or

cattle available for Fransport at this station, I consider the services, in their amounts duly estimated for

ar e

In the detail of the arrangement for removing the soil, I conclude provision will be made le secure sufficient for

to

mortar. The Report upon the Estimatë

should have contained the mode proposed

for the execution of the service.

I return the Report and Estimate

and the two tracings.

I have, de

S Signed /

Edward Mdrich, Majov.

Comm R. & Sup" # Engineer.

Frue Copy

Mame Off & Colonial Secretary.

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Victoria, Honghong,

4th September, 1846

I regret to state that I have * ! _ _ received the enclosed letter from M2

+ Sterling, Attorney General for this Colony,

-forwarding a certificate, (alse enclosed), prom= the Colonial Surgeon, by which it appears

threatening

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that an

an

attack of the eyes, the

erjes,

blindness, renders it absolutely necessary that Mr Sterling should proceed to England.

I need hardly observe that the want

oof

a

of an official legal adviser of the Colonial Government will be severely felt until substitute can be found for Mr. Sterling, and this want is likely to be aggravated by the circumstance of there being,

The Right Honorable,

W. E. Gladstone, M. P.

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no

Barrister