CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5] — Page 249

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payment of £100 rather than £200 to rent

for anything, but when, instead

and of

dealing with generalities, the Memorialists prove the motive of this Government not to have

been what I expected but to have made an effort to get the greatest amount procurable with certainty, they

will then have advanced a step further towards establishing their case. Till then their argument, which by

afar seemed to me and my Executive Council to be throughout unworthy of belief, is but

is but a dreary and unapplied platitude, that commands universal

disregard. I now pass to another part of

12.

the subject on which the Memorialists

246

and which I may designate

greatly rely, their personal argument - they assume,

or at least mention it to have been stated that a Mr. Caldwell, formerly Registrar General of the Colony, had in some way negotiated or conducted the grant of the Cowcumbung Farm, and that the subject is thereby invested with a

painful interest."

13.

I

shall not encumber this despatch

by any protracted inquiry into the personal merits or demerits of Mr. Caldwell. He has

no connection with

Government

and the point is irrelevant. My attention was first called to his case

by a very unexpected appeal to me in his favor by the Members of

the Legislative Council.

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payment of £100 rather than £200 to rent for anything, but when, instead and of dealing with generalities, the Memorialists prove the motive of this Government not to have been what I expected but to have made an effort to get the greatest amount procurable with certainty, they will then have advanced a step further towards establishing their case. Till then their argument, which by afar seemed to me and my Executive Council to be throughout unworthy of belief, is but is but a dreary and unapplied platitude, that commands universal disregard. I now pass to another part of 12. the subject on which the Memorialists 246 and which I may designate greatly rely, their personal argument - they assume, or at least mention it to have been stated that a Mr. Caldwell, formerly Registrar General of the Colony, had in some way negotiated or conducted the grant of the Cowcumbung Farm, and that the subject is thereby invested with a painful interest." 13. I shall not encumber this despatch by any protracted inquiry into the personal merits or demerits of Mr. Caldwell. He has no connection with Government and the point is irrelevant. My attention was first called to his case by a very unexpected appeal to me in his favor by the Members of the Legislative Council.
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payment of £100 than £200 to rent

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for anything, aut when, instead

and of

dealing with generalities, the Memorialists prove the motive of this Government not to have

been what I aperted but to have effort to get the greatest simply been amount procurable with certainty, they

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will then have advanced a step further towards establishing their case. Till then their argument, which by

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12.

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