CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 74

4

4th

ne

to

of July Mr.

Austin gave understand that it was the evident intention of Moss # Moorson and Kydd to claim for the latter, under the agreement made with Sir Richard Graves Mac Donnell,

into

continuance)

of his services to the spring of 1872, if the Government entered

any engagements by which the existing agreement was carried into a period of the year

would involve arrival in in Winter

to be

which

England

Accordingly I directed notice

given

to. Mot Mexorsom in

terms which could not be mistaken

to the effect that although quite

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willing to give M☆ Kydd employment to the 30th of September, I would

not sanction

any arrangement which would directly or indirectly involve

expenditure which was to the spring.

wholly useles

5. On this considerable correspondenc

took place in which Moeseth Moorcon and Kydd laid down that the latter had been engaged under Sir Richard Graves Mac Donnell's

agreement of 1870 until the completion of the Water Works upon the 30th b of

June of this

year, that under the

agreement made in London in March 1867 he

was entitled to 3

the

months notice thereby extending the