but he intimates that this is contrary to the settled practice of Houghong, and either then or subsequently he shpulales (1) that no paper is to be delayed 24 hours (2) that no further step, even the most ordinary stap, such as to refer a paper for the opinion of the head of another department, is to be lahen on even the most
the most ordinary paper without the Governor's sanction This seemed to he
the
lying Colonial Secretarys hands in a
humiliating and
degue at once
niconvenient for the public
Service
Even & Sitel, hom
Dr
Our Hennessy thinks so
highly, nof
Junion that it would not always
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ho posible not to delay a paper
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24 hours, and that a measure of independent action on the part of the Colonial Secretary is unobjectionable
Sir John
Bowrings definition of the duties of a Colonial Secretary of Homphony
ùs more
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with the views of
in accordance
Jur March
and Dr Stewart and, I take it,
with those of Sir M. Hicks Beach as Confidential expressed in his despatch of 27 Anguss in reply to Tur Hennesy of 30 May. From 31 may to
6 September Mr Hennesywas absent and the march administering
On the receipt of Sir
Mr. Hicks Beach's despatch of 27 August, which would be sometime