CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 33

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Jolars per annum being

Att

increase

of Leventy three thousand a year

on the present Farm'

2.

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Despatch. 1/60

Gov

15148/44

Your

of the 14th November 1877 and 1167 of the yo 27th November 17%, I submitted to the

statement I had

Carl & Carnarvon a

put

betore the Legislative Council respecting the Financial reconnces of this Colony in which I expreped the Spinion that

the Spinn Farm had been eriously

undersold.

I explained, at some

length, why I thought the sum

$132,000

a year

for which the Farm

had been sold for three

March 1876

years from

was not it's real value,

159/14.

track from Hong Kong

the 24614_fovente 18/7

and I ventured to anticipate that in

1879

when I might have

opportunity

of dealing with it, a cubstantial

addition to the revenue

revenue might

posibly, be secured. As, however, I find no reference to the subject in any of the Despatches I have hat the hour of receiving from the Colonial Office, I take the liberty of enclosing an extracts from

for your information,

the printed statement. I submitted in 1877 to Lorch Carnarvon.

3.

The privilege of dealing

in

prepared Opinen has now been sold from the 28th February 1879 to the 28th February 1882 for

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