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rate so far financial dealings between the Colonial Department and the Colonial Government have become a dead letter, had not toward the close of the year an unexpected prominence been given to the matter owing to unfortunate contretemps which occurred between the Military and Colonial Authorities in the matter of the annual perambulation of the Military Cantonments, when in consequence of the omission of the Commanding Royal Engineer, to communicate through the Assistant Military Secretary with the Colonial Secretary an error was made in determining the limits of the Military Cantonments and property was destroyed belonging to Chinamen who were living where they did by will and under the protection of the Colonial Government.
The correspondence to which the proceeding gave rise, and prominence with which the Colonial Government dwelt upon the necessity of complying with the terms of the Major General's memo, on occasions of this kind, gave to this matter of direct correspondence a prominence, rendered it necessary for the Colonial Government to be particularly careful in which