CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 117

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In this over populated.

stones will be

of

Portland cement

Labour .

and there is

ordinary

of the

hwo

Care

no reason

why with

such combination

Country bour to so

which is

many

should not answer.

In

every

Cade

salt water will be

is

no

used in the mixing of mortars

ting properties

la

supplying other parts of thes

world, I need scarcely say

that there

scarcity of hands. Good

readily

ing cookes are re

right peace a

as well as

concretes

as its induran

work

three

over

the

ferruginious

be added that in

a

great

clay

Si

are

may

indisputable

many places along the Praga Cast and West, the red mortar

ori

used in the construction

of

work..

oblammable at

day and if set to task

them will do the day's

work of a good English navvy. Good.

stone cutters, bricklayers

and carpenters earn to

pener

A

day

but the wages of plumbers, fillers and

black smith is

- ginally

a

of those

Clown!

A

walls has set with

a

hardness equal t

minently

energetic English hydraulie

limo.

Labour

proficiency

go up as

high

Axt

half

day according to their

Chinese mechanics if

allowed to follow out their own mes_ -thods untrammelled by the compul-

ast l

of European tools work

sory

very fairly well and for the Praya works

thene this in

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