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to the following points. 2. It would appear throughout that correspondence that the Major General was under the impression that this Government had been supplied with every necessary information as to the Military plans for extension of their boundaries seaward. The Major General in proof thereof dwelt on the fact of this Government having in 1855 been furnished with a Confidential Memo. on various subjects. A copy of that Memo. was transmitted in
April 1863 to the Duke of Newcastle by the Officer Administering this
Government, who in doing so requested that "the particular attention of the "Officers Commanding the Troops "should be especially directed to "the necessity of placing the reports "before the Governor in due course "as with a Military Staff constantly "changing it was not unlikely that standing orders might be "overlooked."
3. Colonel Moody's plan seems
however never to have been sanctioned, and the only result of the correspondence known to this
Government was an intimation