CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4] — Page 470

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as

between the Colonial Government and the War Department, further than regards the reasonable ' compensation for improvements " provided for in the Duke of Newcastle's despatch W:15 the 27th of January, 18644

The principle laid

down in that despatch

of

seems

to me and to the Major-

General to be an

equitable

one, which it would be

well to adhere to, and it

is

wo

is therefore this principle. which I have adopted in the consideration of the~ various outstanding questions I shall refer to, and which I venture to suggest might

be now settled in the

mammer

I propose to recommend. 3. The plots particularly prominent in our discussion were those mentioned in the enclosure to Your Lordship's

P despatch N.88 of the 5th of "May, 1891, with the exception

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