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lavish expenditure

expenditure on public works

for the benefit of the working classes, which

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there for the great-majority of the

electors.

(5.) There is another aspect in which this entire question should be considered, General Cameron, while recently administering this Government, pointed

out that any temporary financial

difficulties

A may be remarked that it is probable judging from experience elsewhere, that the Members of the Imperial Parliament will ere

long be exposed to a similar pressure, under the

new

dencocratic franchise.

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difficulties here are due not to the action of the local Government, but mainly to the action of the Colonial Office in giving. express orders that the fiends of this Colony should be spent on the Tytam Water Borks, in spite of the strongly-

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expressal opinion to the contrary of the late Governor, Sir John Pope Hennosey,

and

Respecting the Tytans Water Works, see especially 10953 Sir J. Pope Hennessy's despatches N. 49 and 1313761

90 of 1881. Respecting the Savitary Works, especially his despatches N.29% of 8th an 12874 July, 1880; (paragraphs 9-11) and N2 49 of 29th April, 1881; lögether with several Speeches and Minuetes to ___

effect.

the same

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