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predecessor.

3.

As this scheme.

will cost the Colony nothing, and as two_ departments out of three

favour it, I

appear

to

will not stand in the~

way of its adoption, though

foresee that great difficulties

likely

occur

are

if the Colonial

to

Government is asked to

effect the resumption of Tharp's Lots -_- not only with

the

the lessee, but with the~ Chinese housed on the Lots,

who in

not a source

4.

are

i my opinion

of danger. It is therefore

natural that I should

adhere to the opinion

expressed

in my despatch

above referred to, as, -

to the rapid sitting

owing

up of the foreshore

on the Military

abutting

and Naval Establishments,

the reclamation in

front

of