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mist needs be

a

very protracted

one as

could

only

attend to it during those hours

that I would otherwise have devoted to

relaxation and rest from government work.

were

already

I should add that the Judges aware that I did not take arbitration fees

and that in this

respect my

assistance.....

was not to be considered professional.___

After an analysis that might perhaps

have been effected in a

few weeks but..

which absence of leisure, compelled

which cheque

returned.

12.

was

of

course

I trust I may

to be taking any

immediately...

not be misunderstood

-mexit to myself by the

mention of this personal incident. If it is

alluded to at all here, it is because of the

I am under to dispel any necessity

that may

doubts

arise under the petition, and this part of the subject I may

at

onee

briefly dismiss by stating that since.. I....

am

in

to

động Hong

extend over

fourtien months

arbitration

my

was

completed to the entire satisfaction

of the Court and the parties to the suit,

whose solicitors in a

on

a

a joint letter of thanks

·

behalf of their clients transmitted

(of

me

cheque for #1050, the legal fee of the Arbitrator,

I have not reaped the

farthing by the

benefit of as much as one private exercise of my profession leivil Engineer

13.

as

I do not coneur in Mr Wilson's

interpretation of Governor MacDonnell's

.... Despatch No 322 of the 9th of July, 1867.

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