CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 405

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Enclosure No.

Mr

16th July, 1866.

587

Royal Engineers, from presiding over a

Board

which I proposed

of inquiry instituting, be further admitted in

to some course attacks in the

Ireference

local Prepp

.ow

myself for so plain

а

discharge of my duty, that he had been in communication with the

Editer, though he denied having

written anything.

In

a word his

Conduct peemed to me no bad as well could be, but I was then

it

newly

arrived, and Mr Wilson appeared active

and/

anergetic.

etic alt

wao

pofoible that I

had

overrated his errors

errors and that

they might not recur.

I therefore closed

the subject by the letter sent through

Mo" Minnie, then acting bolonial Seustury,

und of which I transmit a

copy.

Your Grace will perceive from that I had

document what perious

for mistrusting

reason

Mr Wilson's Departmental

management,

und that such mistrust

very different from

arose

from mutters

discussions about repairs of chains or

tables.

59. May distrust of Mr Wilson

profissionally still continues. It be true that he has built

a

muy

as be

says

chimney 100 feet high which has not fallen, and the Mint which still stands; but it is a serious question, whether another person might not

have built just

wo

что

a

mmodious

$40,000 lep

structure for some $30,000 on

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