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Under these circumstances I have accordingly felt it my duty to instruct the Surveyor General to discontinue all further expenditure, which it is possible to stop in Public works not of extreme necessity.
I am therefore sorry to say that, for the present, the intended drainage in the Chinese Quarter will have to be discontinued, though I hope the works may be resumed under more favourable auspices in a few months.
I enclose a return from Surveyor General shewing the amount of saving likely to be realized in this way, though I admit, it is an alternative which I adopt with the greatest reluctance.
12. That saving reaches to $16,000. A large portion also of the $26,000 voted for the Colony's share of expenses for the Gunboat in 1887 will probably not be required, though a portion of it must be at once used to provide otherwise for discharge of many new duties created by the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, and which I presume Her Majesty's Government will insist on being efficiently carried out.
13. Therefore with the additional saving which I hope may be accomplished in the maintenance of Gaols, but which is yet only very experimental, it is still possible to make both ends meet, and
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Under these circumstances I
have accordingly felt it my duty to ~
instruct the Surveyer General to
dis em tinue all
further expenditure,
which it is posible to stop
in
Public
works not
ouf
extreme
necessity-
I am
therefore sorry to say that, for the present
the impened drainage
ed drainage in the Chinese
Quarter will have to be discontinued~
though I hope the works
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months.
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may be resumed
favorable Anspices in a
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I enclose a return from Surveyor General shewing the amount of saving likely to be realized in this way, though. I admit, it is an alternative which
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to see of state
I adopt with the
12.
That &
greatest
reluctance.
Saving reaches to # 16,000.
A large portion also of the $26,000 voted
for the Colony's share of expenses for the Gunboat in 1887 will probably not be ~ required, though a portion of it must be at once used to provide otherwise for discharge of many new duties created by the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, and which I'm
Video Governor presume Her Majesty's Government, with
insist on being efficiently
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efficiently carried out. Therefore with the additional ~
saving which I hope
in the mainten anev
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may
be accomplished
of Gaols, but which
yet is only very experimental, it is still
posible to make both ends meet, and In
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