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and expressed the opinion that res provision whatever has been made

for the Cost

of

"the Water works, you and "I regret

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longer withhold

in the Financial

your confidence

financial work that has

occupied my unremitting attention

since I undertook the Government

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the Braya Wall and

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this Colony

Colony two

4.

years ago. I beg leave respectfully to

grave

that I cannot consider the

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Financial State of the Colony to!?

"be as flourishing

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sight it appears,

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as at Aust

and

you

withhold further expression of opinion until you receive due

explanations

3.

on

those various points. I am happy to be able to

give those explanations at once; and I venture to entertain the

hope that

having your

attention

drawn to the real facts you will

point out that there is

a

muisconception, - for which I am in I no degree to blame, _ in the

statement that the proposal as to

of taxation

sopible reduction made in my speech on the Estimates, is apparently based

upon

the large amount of balances

in hand.

5.

My speech on the Estimates