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announced for public information. I feel grateful to Her Majesty's Government for the confidence with which I am honoured - and though I cannot but regret that the arrangements in which I not only most willingly concurred but which were to a large extent the result of my own suggestions have on being brought to the test of experience failed in their object, I am persuaded that the decision which has been come to has been most judicious and for the true interest of the Colony and Her Majesty's Service.
For it was scarcely possible that two separate and to some extent independent authorities should not come into collision, unless there had been coincidence of purpose and policy, rarely found among men.
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If, as considered by me as controlling and even superseding the subordinate authority of the Lieutenant Governor, the acts now deemed by him as the natural and proper exercise of administrative functions were invading the superordinate authority of the Governor, harmonious cooperation could not but become impossible, and perpetual references to the Secretary of State would have been the inevitable consequence of discordant opinions. I rejoice