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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

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I had almost forgotten it, but I think that in addition to the amounts certainly due to me before referred to, I should be [unclear: re-occuped] my share or any amount you paid as a bribe (I never learned how much it was) to one prominent member of the Provincial Parliament "Who generally makes himself heard when he does speak" and possibly to "six others to be bought cheaply if needed" (I quote your letter now before [unclear: one] of May 1870) to defeat the Government Bill for the construction of the Port Chalmers Railway, though at the time the bribe was strongly objected to by telegram and letter from Mr. Isaac and my brother.

I brought this matter before you four years ago and then told you that for over 20 years while all this injustice and wrong was being inflicted and a hundred times as much which I have not recorded, we had, to protect you, maintained an inviolable secrecy about this bribing transaction, for not a living soul has? ever seen this letter, but as you still decline to make any compensation for the loss to us of all these [unclear: many] thousands by breaches of trust personal to yourself alone, I feel my scruples fast fading under the pressure of your heartless and cruel treatment of me.