CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 104

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my original agreement entered into with the greatest good faith on both sides there is the following very plain sentence "Three months notice

on

either side to be sufficient to terminate the engagement after three years souve

service,"

In His Excellenny the Governor's – rider on that agreement dated March 9th 1870. there is the following plain words "This Government has every re to be satisfied with Mr Hyded's attention to his duties and his intelligent discharge of them, and Iam quick willing to continue

his services

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the terms of his original

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In my letter of March 5th spo

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1870.

there are the following plain words. "I

have not any objection to remain until they (the)

are

brought

e reservoir works ) to a successful complation providing it is desired I wish it only to be distinctly

derstood that in the event of their completion being attained and

my services being dispensed with that such be the case at such a period of the

year

that will enable me to land in

England in the spring or

or summer

months and not in winter ".

The CS.O. N = 1820 dated July = contained the information to me that "His Excellency the Lieutenant

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