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with reference to the question, by pointing

out that Your Lordship, whose

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of the scheme was in any sanction of the

necessary, might deen the above

Caed in

profit too large to be respect by a few proprietors at the experice of the public and might require the work to be done at Government cost for the benefit of all the taxpayers. Amis

caused the same view to be reiterated

urope

: emphatically in the Colonial Secretary's letter of 17th July, 1888; and

Mr Chater, as representative of the lob - owners, in his letter of 9t

Inly

July, 1888,

while assuming

assuming somewhat

prematurely that the local Government.

and the lot-owners

had

agreed

to

the mode in which the work was to

be done, acknowledges the necessity of the Secretary of State's sanction to any such aigreurent, I trust that Your Lordship will be able to regand

as well as

legally

yourself as morally free, to sanction the scheme on, any conditions which may

expedient, notwithstemirding the

position which was somewhat.. unfortunately avoumed by the Government