CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 402

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of the questions under discusion there

"animus"

some an

must be

.on

my port.

Hoe alleges

day of my

incurred

against

Mor" Mennie like myself fails to

52.

him Vide Enclosure. 4

No 5. Piña 12.

remember

that from the

anival in the Colony he

my displeasure by not personally Supervising the repairs of furniture at Government House.

51. Now as I have not the faintest

:recollection of any difference with M. subject of Furniture-

Milson on

mor

the

of having ever interfered to alter

the heading of the note I asked the Quditor General, Mo" Rennie, who

Acting beatonial Secretary

Soon

طالت عليك

after my anival here, if he could remember

such difference or give explanations in the vote referred to.

to the change

any

as

informo

any

such difference but to

me that the small sum in

question, $250. has always been expended by the Privute Secretary who alone is charged with the duty of looking after

the fumitive. He further has shown

of

the purveyor

me

original

vouchers

General in which sundry charges for such repairs had been detected by the Auditor General

and struck out

him. He showed me

especially

one

by

voucher of Mr Wilson for September 1864

(nearly a year

and a

half before my arrival)

have

on which the Auditor General had finally

endorsed a Miño that in future

mo

such items were to be inserted in the

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