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to be attended with the same
Unsatisfactory results, and as the difficulty arose not,
1 from
the compliance
of the Colonial Government with the Major General's instructions, but from the nature of those instructions, which
General took no steps
the
Silajis
Either to modify
modify or Enforce,
Enforce, the
Colonial Government determined to
or
in some way
have the matter settled in one
the other and telegraphed home for permission to make the payment of the Military Contribution direct to the Commissariat the Major
General's instructions to the
Contrary notwithstanding.
The answer to this telegram
which came in the shape of a telegram
from the War Office to the General, and which was transmitted to this Government through the Assistant Military Secretary,
etc. gave necessary permission, and the Colonial Government at once paid
the Contribution for the two Quarters, and at the same time forwarded
a
copy of the telegram to Colonel Sherviston the Assistant Commissary General, with a view to letting him know that the Government was now at liberty to carry
on the direct correspondence
which the General's orders had hitherto
rendered if not impossible at any rate impolitic.
The correspondence is closed by