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Your predicckor, General Sir Francis

I know it is not usual

Colborne was

good enough to say

to

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for

Colonial

if you

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Governor's to dine out, but if

would wave

for

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once

the trict etiquette

and dine at Head Quarter

Houre I should be

benged of

very glad

him to let me decline

the invitation, and this he did in

the Kindert manner.

two after this, when he

Wa

A week on

dining

at Government House he expreped his

entire concurrence in the rule

by which Governors do not dine out. Though I never apcepted any of invitations he appreciated the reason

his

and dish me the honor, invariably

of accepting the invitations to Government House.

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Other General

Offices

in Command

Troops in Colonies where I have been Loverun have acted precisely lite

General Sir Francis Colborne.

Not long since one

of the most

he Lovernment

experienced of the Australian Governors mentioned that for fifteen years had never dined out from House- except to public dinners

That there is some little distinction between the Queens Representative and the other Officers in the Chony in this repect is known to the Foreign Officers

also ou

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