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Addressed to the Right Honourable The Secretary of State for War
for War by the Major General Commanding the Troops, wherein he submits that the conduct of the Colonial Government has been gratuitously and obstructively detrimental to public business.
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Eveline W.
The narrative of the business in Colonial Secretary which I transmit leaves me little to add on the subject, and from which I think the following facts are deducible:
1st that the exchange of correspondence between the Control Department and Colonial Government prior to 1875 worked satisfactorily.
2nd that the Major General Commanding by his Memorandum dated 29th January 1876, and 3rd defined by the Assistant Military Secretary's letter dated 27th April 1875, caused that system to be altered, and precluded the financial officers of the Colonial Government from (as heretofore) corresponding direct with the head of the Control Department at the risk of being accused of acting in contravention to the General's wishes.
3rd that the Colonial Government made a bona fide and straight-