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despatch N-38 of 1851.

Inclosure No3 in

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Extracts of Despatches from Sir Henry Pottinger to Lord Stanley, relative to the reservation, for Civil purposes, of the ground at present being levelled for a "Plaza"-

Despatch 102 of 23

2 of 23rd June, 1843.-

"When I was last

absent with the

Expedition to the

Northward, Kear Adiniral Sir Thomas

Cochrane caused some temporary Naval Store. Houses to be built on the spot of ground lying in front of

"Government Hill" which I particularly describe in my first letter to Lord Paltoun

as

benig in my opinion.

Plan

of

Duplicate.

by the respective officers of -

showing the area now claimed the ground in Victoria,

omance.