CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12] — Page 63

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sanction to the Officer Commanding

the Engines to use his discretion in

blowing up

buildings for the pompose

of checking the progress of the flames,

but iture

Avas

A

long interval after I had despatched a mounted Trooper

to the Artillery Barracks with the

Q

requisite orders from the Officer Commanding

before the necessary powder was procured.).

J.

b.

There

Mas

also much time

subsequently occupied, at least, in the earlin part of the night, in using the powder when it had arrived.

Finally at & A.M. having auctiorized, the destruction of a large block of buildings, to interrapt the live of five spreading then to the

Wistward I had the satisfaction of

seeing

A

check given to the conflagration

before I left the ground).

%.

On the whole however, the Community must now be satisfied)

that a greater unity of action is I

desirable in

such

cases, as at present the various Engines coved by private

parties cannot be directed either by the Governor or by any one Head

8.

to

any

reaso

are

Mead).

A disinclination to subunit-

Head

was the principal

why the formation of a que Brigade which I reported as being

in progress after the fire of lant spear fill iterough aborquently. I. hope this recent

occurrence) will

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