have been waived by the Local Government from the Secretary of State; and it is neither advisable nor respectful to this Council that it should be left in complete ignorance on the subject. It is quite advisable that every, or at any rate many members, if not every individual member of the Council must have heard and read in the local newspapers reports as to the nature of the correspondence.
1. If the correspondence referred to, such as it is reported to be, contains a great amount of error, falsehood and slander; and it is only by the production of the reference that the Council can ascertain the truth or falsehood of these reports. I have been informed that some members of this Council have stated, and I have read on more than one occasion in the local newspapers that Dr. Bridges - then acting as my Colonial Secretary and himself the person whose conduct had been under inquiry by the Committee referred to - forwarded to Downing Street the Report of the Committee immediately after it was presented to the Council, before the evidence was printed.