CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 5

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isss the then Senior Engineer - Officer cooperated in settling with the Surveyor General the plane for the sale of this very sea frontage - it was sold - it realised

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a considerable

e price

and has

Since been dealt with in accordance

with the views of the different purchasers whose action is cr

entirely beyond my

control.

I can readily understand that an Officer of the ability of Colonel Lugard is unwilling remain idle in this island

To re

white awaiting

a more active.

Scene of operations, but I must

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express my regret that these suggestions tend to the disarrangement of matters formally settled and approved by the Nome authorities and that in my judgment they are :posed to sound Colonial dinos

and

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· permanent interests and I Aust that measures which are

associated with real and lasting

Cenefits to the Community will

not be allowed to be impeded still loss superseded for the r purposes of erecting a few

isolated. Guns, utterly valveless against any Serious attacti