CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 519

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Victoria City Hall Museum and Library, I have now the honour

to transmit to Your Lordship. correspondence which has

а

my

my

recently taken place betwren Government and the Chairman

the Committee of the City Hall ~ (Mr.Keswick).

From this correspondence,

it will be seen that in a letter

addressed to the Colonial Secretary

26th May ultimo, Mr. Keswick set forth the difficulties under which

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the Institution labours, and requested

the

Enclosure 1.

Enclosure 2.

the renewal of the Government.

- grant. In the answer which I

directed to be addressed to him, dated 7th instant, it was pointed

out that it was

renew the

impossible to

grant unless efforts.

were made to meet the views of

the Secretary of State as

expressed in hie despatch No 60 of 1881, where

it is said: "I cannot sanction

"the continued expenditure of

#

publie money on any institution of the Kind in which

any.

"distinction is made a

among " different

the

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