Council, when it was resolved that it was "neither necessary nor desirable" to trouble the Secretary of State with it.
The questions are altogether of a local character, and such as you would naturally expect to be settled in the Colony.
The parties concerned only hold Provisional appointments, the post of one being likely to be speedily filled by a nomination from home, and that of Captain Cowper himself resumed by Mr Cleverly, in all probability before your answer can be received.
The communications which have been made to the different parties requiring each in his separate "sphere of action" to discharge his duties will, it is hoped, prevent any further annoyance.
I regret to think that you, Sir, have already been but too much troubled with the personal dissensions of the Colonial Functionaries, and feel that a frequent recurrence of these references to the Secretary of State would only encourage the practice and aggravate the evil.
I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant,
Sir John Bowring