on certain conditions.
2 I have hitherto delayed communicating with you on this subject in the hope of being able to discover some mode of facilitating Major Caine's retirement, and that obstacles of an insuperable nature oblige me at length to abandon the attempt as impracticable.
3 The proposals made by Major Caine for his retirement are as follows:-
1. That he should receive a grant of £4,000 in money—a grant of land in N. Zealand, to the extent of £1,000 in addition to a grant of land as a military officer, and that the immediate sale of his commission should be guaranteed to him.
2. A pension of £450 per annum with the grant of land and sale of his commission.
4. With regard to the