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I venture to think that the public will be consulted by following the course prescribed by the Colonial Regulations before referred to, then by that which the Major General has adopted, and convenience will be served.
10
Any I refrain from offering comment upon the unusual practice adopted by the Major General of writing "Noted without remarks" P. C. (Francis Colborne) across the extract of the Colonial Regulations, to which his attention had been called in the letter of the Colonial Secretary, No. 311 of 18th April 1876.
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I would further observe that the Major-General habitually sends copies of his despatches to the Secretary of State for War, for my information and transmission to Your Lordship after he has forwarded them by Mail, thereby rendering it impossible for me, with Section 3, Paragraph 207 of the Colonial Regulations, which the Major General appears to disregard.
12
I cannot close this dispatch without expressing my great regret in being obliged to trouble Your Lordship with a matter...