CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 400

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General

"blank

"Cordero.

com

the repairs, and that M6"

mever

gave

Mo" Prestage any

4.6. I confess that this description of

the mode in which repairs and expenditure

in the Survey Department

in At

conducted in

this bolony-

are at times.

and the

Singular prevarication and intruthfulnes

of

some one or other of the parties P concerned must afford a very humiliating

picture of

Low

our bolonial mode of carrying

Public works, but I

am unavo

unavoidably

compelled to supply these details by M2

Milson's

Q

reference to the unmerited disgrace

of surcharging him with the cost of

the repairs

in

question". The probability

is that NO? Thestage's latest version is

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correct, because it tallies with his first.

It

unmistakably fixes the seoponsibility Mr Wilson, who had denied having

given Mr

orders whatever!

Mo" Prestage my orders

an inao

inaccuracy proved by an entry

his own hand-writing.

As Mr Wilson could thus, without

HY.

Knowledge

a

and against my

in

my

wish, tum

body of workmen into the stables

and Kitchens

at some of his other

of my

residence,

Your Grace

will not

perhaps at

be surprised

amongst which

be

may

-as one

excentricities, reckoned that he should allege,

ccoe

for being annoyed at Mo" blautt's

appointment, po extraordinary

that the batter

a reason

arrangement broke up a plan which he had of providing

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