CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 93

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allavance

of Ordinance + NE 21 of 1884, you desired in paragraph 3, to be informed of the amount estimated for Premium

On-

Laud sates in the corning year (1885).

2.

In reply

I have the honour

to inform Your Cordship that the

amount realized must depend

On

the

number of laud sales hold, and the

keen new

new or othercise of the com

of the competitions

at

n

the auctions. In the present depressed

state of trade, owing shiefly to the Franco-Chinese complications, it is fecured that then is not such uconey in this community, for investiccent in- land or otherwise . Still the Surveyor-

General

$30,000.

£5,500.

- Several hopes that the sun will not be

under thirty thousand dollars or about

five thousand five hundred pounds.

I have given such instructions

3.

as will ensure Your Lordship being

regularly informed of the account. n anticipated from

the vale

oflands, when the annual Estiinates are forwarded for

your approval.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's Most Obectiont,

Humble Servant,

SM

Bor

S

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