beyond his inference from general indications. I felt however that any right, which the Colony might have to open the intended communication with the beach, would if not legally be practicably lost, once the Military Authorities became owners of the entire length of the shore, I therefore thought it expedient to secure that right, whilst possible, pending a reference to Your Lordship, on account of the circumstances, and I stated my full knowledge.
334 appears to be enclosed in a reply in which he states that I seem to labor under an entire misconception, as to the knowledge previously possessed by this Government of the intentions and wishes of the Military. He seems to think that I ought to have been fully aware of those intentions, and refers in proof thereof to a communication made to this Government by Colonel Moody as far back as April 1863, and to a private note of Colonel Lovell to the Surveyor General last July, such being my intention, in the absence of any information throwing light on the object of the Military Authorities.
3. I have since received from the Major General Commanding the information elicited by an accidental circumstance, but it gives me no intimation of the actual plan submitted to the Secretary of State for War.