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despatches relating to finarice, that
I had sent from time to time since
November 1877 to the Colonial Office, -
with the view of removing
the serious
misconcertion with respect to
my
financial work which runs through Your Despatch M42 of the 8th of
distilas April 1879. In that dispatch
you say: -
"The propocal (of a reduction in
taxation) is apparently
the large amount
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based
upon
balances in
haus.
I have pointed out that
glance through the various Despatches I had the honor
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laying before Lord Carmawon aud
yourself would have shown that
the very moduate reduction
I indicated as
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taxation
being posible, was
founded upon the Actual and
prospective increase of revenue. Whilst I deeply regret that a
misconception
this important
point, - most important in its bearing on the question whelter this
Colony
was
financially prosperous
or otherwise, and perhaps of some
little interest as
regards my
official reputation, _ ehould have Arevailed in Downing Street,
I
f
happy to say
that
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