"questioned without annulling Her Majesty's Australian and the Colonial Regulations. As to the reprimand, the Letter of the Colonial Secretary notifies him that his disobedience of positive orders was put on record for further reference, and did not
as was supposed wipe out all
the delinquencies of which
Complaint
was made.
But the General
says whose letter it was, says it did.
"The Surveyor General then respectfully asks his Excellency for further time to consider
what defence he should make
to the new
Evidence referred to
in the Documents No. 3422 of 1871
and
No. 323
of 1872, which were
brought forward to show that since the last return the Surveyor General had failed to comply with positive orders, such as to live. He also requests that
he
may
have the advantage of legal
assistance in laying his case before
the Council.
"His Excellency states that
he has taken cases of great similarity
against Mr. Monson
and
only done so because there
was a very strong body of Evidence sufficient to substantiate the charges brought against him. So much was
this the case that the Colonial