CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 380

the Inajor Several's information, that the Surveyor feneral: reports that the land marked A on the enclosed plan has long since been appropriated

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the site of the Colonial... Observatory, that there is in INP. Price's opinion spot in the Colony which - would fulfil the weess ary conditions of a site for observatory, and theat to ~ relinquish it would be a great hose to the shipping

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same difficulty would not arice about handing over the plot of land marked

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B, beyond leaving to make.. compensation to the percous who, under a squatters lives", have converted the Eastern side into rice fields.

3. As the Governor does not howwer gather from ~

your letter of the 18th sistant, that the

new works contemplates,

and the applicates & for those additional plots of land have been sanctioned from home, be ventures to suggest to Hior Excellency the major feueral that copies of this correspondence. might be sent to Her Inajiety's Government before plot Bis granted to the War - Department

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