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action in reference to Your Lordship's despatch of the 15th December last conveying the Majesty's gracious confirmation of the Ordinance imposing Stamp duties in this Colony.
"I need scarcely say that it would be an endless task and quite beside my duty to encumber the records of the Colony or of Your Lordship's Department with refutations of the many misrepresentations and scurrilous libels for which the Press of this Colony has obtained an unenviable notoriety. They produce little impression on the resident Community and can only be noticed without raising their importance.
W:12 of 1881.
Although in its general tone the Daily Press had greatly improved, I am told, as compared with former years when it was under the sole control of Mr. Murrow, who in the absence of the present permanent Editor has been managing it during the last few weeks. His recent brief career has been marked by a succession of libels on myself as well as others, and a succession of humiliating apologies extracted by threats of legal proceedings.
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The Government have not being likely to notice him, he has had less restraint in persistently misrepresenting the actions of the Executive. Thus he having so far forgotten himself as to have published four misrepresentations of myself as to