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tried, would prove a certain failure.

4.

Coming to (2) the -

principal object of this despatch I should mention in the first instance that the want of additional space for the building of European dwellings in connection with the Town

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of Victoria is very great indeed. Owing to the searcity of houses,

and the enormous rents

consequently demanded, very

many persons who under

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favourable conditions -

would naturally occupy

tenements

of

their

own, are

obliged to be content with

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lodgings in crowded streets, or even compelled to

live in Chinese houses,

suffering thereby

in health and comfort, not to mention the loss so caused to the rate-

revenue of the Colony.

5.

"If, as

: as I earnestly hope,

a settlement should shortly br reached of the long-vexed

question