CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4] — Page 245

In the supervision of the works ats Governmenthouse the three sappers attached to the Department have given much satisfaction, and although the workmanship there has been excented in the most praiseworthy manner, I cannot

accord

believe

any praise to the Contractor, Ibations he has had some pecuniary difficulties,

and

Shaving

day-

in

been most mattentive, I

sequence obliged to employ labourers; to construct a stone drain

required by the Contract; to guarantee payment of certain dues to stonemasons and bricklayers; and make other arrangements for carrying on the Contract, which by

carlos I was ito terms I was empowered to do:

By

this m

means the

men were induced

to proceed with the work; a greater

number have.

lately been placed on

the Building, and it is

mensprogressing

favorably . _ The assistance given by

as overseers ig

240

the

o

sappers

-entirely confined to Government house, and this I have had the entire responsibility of all other supervision of work upon myself alone. This has comprised to gether with Governmenthouse, the works at the Gad, two Guardhouses, residence for Gaoler, Debtor's prison, Treadwheelhouse, Police Nong-nei-chung

Fation at

for

Gast

Boathouses

the Harbour Master and Police, and toschoolhouses for the Chinese, to which must be added the repairs to the several Sublic Buildings, which have been w executed during the

the new Road

• year, from Aberdeen Street to join the Queen's "Road at the Naval Pores, [which it is

proposed to call Bonham Road) the

constant attention demanded

d frum me in the Lower Bazaar, not only