CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5] — Page 11

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10.

and also a

similar retinate of Au balance which would remain of theal Fund, if the orr on pements proposed by myself

had been carried out In the latter Case the balance would have been in Found smukers only $317,000 - in the former Th. 449,486. The difference Exceeds $129,000, and is the siun

which Your Lordship propones

from iter Colorry

111. The

now.

new instinctions prat

I woned now re

pust

to take

received.

quire that the above

Estimates should be recast, though

in the result there would be no

very

material difference, for although (the

Colony is su

is Andidealy

ordered

to be

credited with a contribution in did

of $50,000, u

instead

of

$30,000,

Yet on the other hand the indulgence

802 13357-69.

is limited to 1869, whilst it loves the deposit interest which it had been Receiving,

and which had seemed

a natural Commission

for the trouble.

and responsibility of me an aging the Fundi

12.

On the whole it becomes more

wident that if it be possible to costre

some general principle as guishing and Controtting all dealings

with that Fund

it is most desirable to Establish it carly: Otherwise Her Majesty's Government must labor under great disadvantag and be exposed to attacks and mis= representations, whilst, ad interim, it Can satisfy no party. I venture therefore to hope that as I am Compabled almost beat th immediately by the state of my

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