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furnished with the instances in which My Authority has been set at naught - during the past year.
I beg to refer Your Excellency to the Colonial Secretary's letter No 386 of 2nd May last to the address of Colonel Hay, Chief of the staff, which enclosed for Your Excellency's information Despatch from the Secretary of State and letter from Major General Sir A.m Straubenzie, showing the relations of this Government to the garrison of the Colony.
These relations, arranged by the two Secretaries of State for War and for the Colonies, have reference to troops for Service in China and the garrison of this Colony.
As regards the troops for service in China, the arrangements since Your Excellency's assumption of the Command of the Forces, have been systematically neglected - I have never received a single report from the office in Command, and have been left to learn from Newspapers and public rumor, the arrivals, departures, and intermediate movements of the troops within my Government.
As regards the garrison, Your Excellency will recollect that on the transfer of the Royal Regiment I complained officially that this was done in contravention of the orders of the Secretaries of State. Again, the 44th Regiment was made a part...