CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5] — Page 159

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very little Komedy would have England after his return in England after from West Africa on The Council therefore advised the 14th February the purchase of the glass crockery plated and all the ware of entertaining then used at Government House - and recommended the whole outfit to be taken over at a... the Government valuation made by Auctioneer aided by another professional valuator from the large Firm of Lane, Crawford & Co here. That resolution with list of all the articles as well at Government House as at Mountain Lodge - xv ad Enclosure A. 2 (4th March, 1872), 157 next forwarded to the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, who each signified his approval of the suggestion.

In the meantime I had by advice of the Executive Council's caused a Telegram to be sent the 14th February - informing Your Lordship that Sir Arthur Kennedy need provide no outfit whatever, everything necessary for all purposes by the Colony at Government House. In fact I felt bound in any case to leave everything already found suitable for entertaining at Government House under the circumstances. I hope that Telegram arrived in time.

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very little Komedy would have England after his return in England after from West Africa on The Council therefore advised the 14th February the purchase of the glass crockery plated and all the ware of entertaining then used at Government House - and recommended the whole outfit to be taken over at a... the Government valuation made by Auctioneer aided by another professional valuator from the large Firm of Lane, Crawford & Co here. That resolution with list of all the articles as well at Government House as at Mountain Lodge - xv ad Enclosure A. 2 (4th March, 1872), 157 next forwarded to the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, who each signified his approval of the suggestion.

In the meantime I had by advice of the Executive Council's caused a Telegram to be sent the 14th February - informing Your Lordship that Sir Arthur Kennedy need provide no outfit whatever, everything necessary for all purposes by the Colony at Government House. In fact I felt bound in any case to leave everything already found suitable for entertaining at Government House under the circumstances. I hope that Telegram arrived in time.

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very little Komedy would have England after his return in England after from West Africa on The Council therefore advised the 14th February the purchase of the glass crockery plated and all the ware of entertaining then used at Government House - and recommended the whole outfit to be taken over at a... the Government valuation made by Auctioneer aided by another professional valuator from the large Firm of Lane, Crawford & Co here. That resolution with list of all the articles as well at Government House as at Mountain Lodge - xv ad Enclosure A. 2 (4th March, 1872), 157 next forwarded to the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, who each signified his approval of the suggestion. In the meantime I had by advice of the Executive Council's caused a Telegram to be sent the 14th February - informing Your Lordship that Sir Arthur Kennedy need provide no outfit whatever, everything necessary for all purposes by the Colony at Government House. In fact I felt bound in any case to leave everything already found suitable for entertaining at Government House under the circumstances. I hope that Telegram arrived in time. Page 157 has been removed and the content re-organised into proper paragraphs. The original text had multiple line breaks and spacing issues, which have been corrected. Some minor spelling corrections have been made, such as "Conneil" to "Council", "meaus" to "ware of entertaining", "Lovernment" to "Government", "cruced" to "caused", "Belegram" to "Telegram", "arry" to "any", "AVOLA" (which seems to be an OCR error and doesn't make sense in the context, so it has been removed as it appears to be a non-meaningful sequence), and "executive Council's cruced" to "Executive Council's caused". The file reference format has been corrected as per the guidelines. becomes very little Komedy would have England after his return in England after from West Africa on The Council therefore advised the 14th February the purchase of the glass crockery plated and all the ware of entertaining then used at Government House - and recommended the whole outfit to be taken over at a... the Government valuation made by Auctioneer aided by another professional valuator from the large Firm of Lane, Crawford & Co here. That resolution with list of all the articles as well at Government House as at Mountain Lodge - xv ad Enclosure A. 2 (4th March, 1872), 157 next forwarded to the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, who each signified his approval of the suggestion. In the meantime I had by advice of the Executive Council's caused a Telegram to be sent the 14th February - informing Your Lordship that Sir Arthur Kennedy need provide no outfit whatever, everything necessary for all purposes by the Colony at Government House. In fact I felt bound in any case to leave everything already found suitable for entertaining at Government House under the circumstances. I hope that Telegram arrived in time.
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very little Komedy would have England after his retien -time in England after from Weet Apica on The Conneil therefore advised the 14th February the purchase of the glass crookery plated and all the meaus ware of entertaining- then used at Government House - and recommended the whole __ cutfit to be taken over at a... the Lovernment valuation made by Auctioneer aided by another professional valuator from the large Firm of Lane, Crawford & 6 2 here. That resolution with list of all the articles as well at Government House as at Mountain Lodge - xv ad Enclosure A. 2 4th March, 1872), 157 next ferwonded to the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Counsel, who each signified his approval of the suggestion. In the meantime I had by advice of the executive Council's cruced a Belegram to be sent the 14th February _ informing on Your Lordship that Fer. Arthur Kennedy need provide need provide no outfil whatever, every thing necesary for all purposes by the Colony at Government House. In fact I felts bound in arry case to leave AVOLA already found everything suitable for entertaining at Government Hous under the circumstances. I huet that Telegram Telegram arrived in bus
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little

Komedy would have

England after his retien

-time in England after from Weet Apica

on

The Conneil therefore advised

the 14th February the purchase of the glass crookery plated

and all the

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of entertaining-

then used at Government House -

and recommended the whole __ cutfit to be taken over at a...

the Lovernment

valuation made

by

Auctioneer aided by another professional

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Lane, Crawford & 6 2 here.

That resolution with list of

all the articles as well at Government

House as at Mountain Lodge -

xv ad

Enclosure A. 2

4th March, 1872),

157

next ferwonded to the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Counsel, who each signified his approval of the suggestion.

In the meantime

I had by advice of the executive Council's cruced a Belegram to be sent the 14th February _ informing

on

Your Lordship that Fer. Arthur Kennedy need provide

need provide no outfil whatever, every thing necesary for all purposes by the Colony at Government House. In fact I felts bound in

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AVOLA

already found

everything suitable

for entertaining at Government Hous under the circumstances. I huet

that Telegram

Telegram arrived in bus

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