CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12] — Page 305

and that important & that

the Colony

is able to bear

the expense.

I I am glad to learn that

the receipts of the Locala

Revenues for

the

pist

eleven

months exceeded the estimated

Revenue

ly

$164,000, as I

gathered from the Estimates for

1899 that the bedcare

excess

woats for the whole

year would

be but little over half that

amount.

3 At the same time Inga

298

as pounted out in my Despulch

No 332

of the 231d alto

the Revised Expenditure for 1898

shows

aw

execu

over

original

Estimate

the

of

au

wel

ater amount and

greater

there cires.

uu des

I regret that. I

cannot Samantato consider

construction of

the

this road until

I learn posariens from your

reply

to that Despatch what

proposals you may

have to