CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 576

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Exvernorship, and by a singular and most injurious arrangement in my case (though not so intended by the Colonial Office) Government House being allotted to the Superintendent of trade and not to the Governor de facto - and this at a time when house property was at fabulous value and the necessaries of life stood at cent per cent upon the prices of ordinary times.. It is true that the Naval department have been paying an indifferent rent for a house in Yough Street, the enormous sum of 7200 Dollars per annum to give accommodation to a few Subaltern Officers, the rent of which was only 600 Dollars per Annum.

It did not, Sir, consist with my notions of what was due to the high office thus entrusted to me to hoard the Salary attached to it - no - I extended a considerable portion of it in what I venture to designate a dignified and discriminating Official hospitality, not confined merely to all branches of our own Services, and to the Strangers of this great Mercantile Community but to the Representatives of Foreign Governments, en route, through our waters.

I will, Sir, impress the fact upon your consideration that the inevitable hospitalities of this Government during 15 months of the years 1854 and 55 devolved upon me, as the Governor de facto, and that the experiment of 1857 of conferring the...

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Exvernorship, and by a singular and most injurious arrangement in my case (though not so intended by the Colonial Office) Government House being allotted to the Superintendent of trade and not to the Governor de facto - and this at a time when house property was at fabulous value and the necessaries of life stood at cent per cent upon the prices of ordinary times.. It is true that the Naval department have been paying an indifferent rent for a house in Yough Street, the enormous sum of 7200 Dollars per annum to give accommodation to a few Subaltern Officers, the rent of which was only 600 Dollars per Annum.It did not, Sir, consist with my notions of what was due to the high office thus entrusted to me to hoard the Salary attached to it - no - I extended a considerable portion of it in what I venture to designate a dignified and discriminating Official hospitality, not confined merely to all branches of our own Services, and to the Strangers of this great Mercantile Community but to the Representatives of Foreign Governments, en route, through our waters.I will, Sir, impress the fact upon your consideration that the inevitable hospitalities of this Government during 15 months of the years 1854 and 55 devolved upon me, as the Governor de facto, and that the experiment of 1857 of conferring the...573
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