be carried
of any year may of the account of Colonial Ways & Means for the
rest; - an arrangement Which in Earl Grey's opinion may serve
to prevent a recurrence of
Thet. I fear that confusion, & interchange of the real financial
position of the Colonial finances – which has
caused so much perplexity.
若
10. Snatchy,
W. A. C. Torrens 30 Aug.
immediate.
1219.
Will der. Surviving.
150
with draft. No 56. Date 15 Sep? filed to for?
& another to Treasury) both cancelled even:
naturally
I think it will be understood.
understood from the particular explanations I have made then
drafts to embody that it was
impossible to adopt in them the exact tenor of W. Hawes, minute, which Lord Grey desires to have followed, but which assigns facts & figures for which I can find
no warrant. I have, however, done my best to catch the general
drift of the minutes, & to communicate this to these drafts.
With regard to the supposition that this department will be open to the charge
of not answering
Parliament for not despatching
earlier - I would beg to point out that it
was totally impossible to give
an answer,