CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 6

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The Prayer project has been

lons under consideration, and after rexement opposition and a thorough

"

invectivation of its mucrits, it has

recived the sanction

of

the Stome

authnities- it will give important

if the

ex

financial returns, and even Government has to make advances on the work, there advances will in

A

I largely remunerative

"Not so the works which Mr

Bridges considers to have

"immeasurably"

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m

This is loo

afa

to

he is attrived.

superion claim, Boinal for de

They cannot be carried out without the assistance of a large Parliamentary Grant- They have only lately been put prominently forward,

and have received no savetion

from Stome. When the Colonial "Secretary (Med Mercer) so urgently

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advocated the construction

Praya, he

was

of the condition

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the

thoroughly

aware

of

the Gaol and

F

of

-

the Civil Hospital and as he is now

in London, he

may be advantageously consulted as to the comparative

merits of cach.

I beg in conclusion to state

that whatever

be

may be your

decision

as to the Gaol and the Hospital,!

am

engage

that

quite prepared to ofor the construction of the Praya

no daim shall be runde on

Imperial Funds -

an

application

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