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discussions

now is, that M? blark would

I should not like to

my previous

decline to give,

and

ask him, as had been

intention, for detailed reports

on these

matters so that I find myself placed

in a

very embarrassing pasition.

15. Mr Wilson seems to me more u

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Railway Engineer than anything else.

Even

so, and expensive

as it would be

to the bolony that he should be learning other branches of his profession at the

were

Cast of this Community, still if he otherwise a valuable acquisition there

would eventurally

be

some

equivalent.

Unfortunately, however, he has that H [rectless self sufficiency which prevents his

improving

as another

man

might, and I

fear that altogether his appointment

must be

regarded

one. He has

energy.

as

ست

very unfortunate

und

great personal activity but if misdirected the greater

his activity the

are the results.

more

extensively injurious

lob. I cannot foresee at what conclusion

Your Grace may arrive. but it is evidents

Council impossible that I ar

my

can

repose personal confidence in Mr Wilson, seeing that he has exhibited himself in this correspondence as incontestably

be

Scarcely

selfish and untruthful. There is one statement of his throughout which

is

wholly covert. Your Space,

moreover,

will observe that the bouncil and

myself do not form

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opinions almost