CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12] — Page 387

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subject of

some discussion between

I have had the opportunity of obtaining

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some extent W Sharp's news, which

may

enlarge upon subsequently, meamobile merely stating in brief

his leading reasons for objecting to the

course

you

to accept-

ask me

as his attorney

MSharp does not want to sell the property in question at all, rightly.

believing that it is daily becoming

more

more and

valuable as

the City extends on all sides around it, he is

aware

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that under the leases it

may

resumed for public purposes, and

if such public purpose existed would

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not refuse to part with it on adequate compensation, but be maintanis that such purpose must be some improvement of the bity by the Colonial Government, whereas I understand that the object of the resumption is amply the enlargement of the propertig of the Military authorities adforming, who have no right of resumption,

bust

..

the contrary every facility and means of purchasing in the

ordinary way: - uideed they have for some years past been treating for the purchase, and that they should now take advantage of a misconstruction of the resumption clause to obtain possession of his

property at a cheaper price than the

market

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