Military and the Civil Authorities),
dewarded prompt attention, and that any faint delay on my part would have allowed the matter to have become worse. I found, of course, Maro perfectly content to have lost the leave of absence I had, at that time, expected.
At the same date that I received Your Lordship's telegrams directing my return to England, several other Governors received similar instructions. I was, however, the first to comply with those instructions and to report to Downing Street.
It appears to me that Besawar had made Barradas too fast to stand him. That was bad, I think.
I was the only Governor who enjoyed no half pay from the date of leaving his former Government to the date of leaving England for his present Government. That is, I had no pay whatever for three months, from 14 December 1876 to 14 March 1877.
Major Sir Arthur Kennedy complied as promptly as possible with the telegram he received. He was told that if he delayed his departure, he would have suffered loss of pay.
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