CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 299

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feet to seaward of the old Beach, which

formed the boundary of the original

Plato, and it

was o

the conditions of

the original leases of those lots that

the strength of the Government depended.

LM.

case

It seems difficult to understand

how he could have entertained such

an

finion at all, and still lefs if such had been his first impression,

how

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Officer generally so painstaking and minute in his investigations could have retained it after the most

cursory

examination of the details of the Case.

12.

As, however,

matters had

we

both felt that

gone too far for the

Government to recede

as a

ملا سیم

matter of

Juasi

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policy and as

to obtain

I was

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chiefly anxious

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an authoritative decision one

or the other, the issue

way or

was tried

and the result

was

against the Geremment

as

already stated.

13. J

confefs

conlaps that this result

appears to

with sound.

me to harmonize with and justice. The Traya

sound policy

is a

work

essentially Public, and it's security is

а

matter which affects the interests

at

of the entire community. I therefore feel. that it ought to be the Public expense

14.

provided for

Nevertheless, as Your Grace

is aware

I am at this moment in such a state

uncertainty as to the decisions which

Phase /18 Her Majesty's Government may adopt

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