CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10] — Page 67

behalf

had accepted this notices on

Mr. Sharp, saying however, that

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such a

it ver

having

been anticipated he was without the sufficient legal power from.

W Sharp, but would writes home

ah

powerts.

for nistructions and full

th

Oce the 27. ED....s the Surveyor:

General reported that he had seen Mr Davis who annomeed having received Mr Sharp's reply by mail which arrived)

the

the previous

day together with the herevery

legal

powers, and that be (Mr Davis) was

therefore

in al

the maller

a position to enter into

or i

behalf of Mr. Sharp).

Three days after, however, the

or General

Survey or

wrote again encloving as letter from Mr. Davis

(copy

64

(copy atlashed marked) B) and expressing his (the Surveyor General's) great surprise

at the contents, considering what had

+ the afore so

aforesaid du his opinion it

laken place at the

interview.

was a sudden revolution.

the

part of Mr. Davis, aining appareatly at transfering the negotiations to London, but in order to avoid) any

fur

then

delay

the notice to Mr. Shanks

has now been sent.

mail

A ◊

by

the last

requested in Mr Davis'

letter, and there the matter now-

reck for the prevent

Neither I not the Comm. Roy:

Engineer

are under the least

apprehension that

aup

Fury

could

very materially alter the Surveyor -General's figures (as gevers in the

valuation herdo attached.