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which I will
make available.
endeavour
to
When I accepted my appointment,
Colonial Secretary accordingly when
I landed in the Colony
in the Colony I called first
His Excellency the Governor, who
with distinguished
courtesy, then on
my first english
was as to the
received
mode in which I was to communicate
with the Government; I had been
furnished with a
copy of the Commissioners'
report of 1879 which shewed
and then
the Colonial Secretary
the Chief Justice and
such,
the reception I met with
that only the respect I felt for the
Office he held prevented
it being
clearly that some reform and I felt that it would be advisable from time to time to make suggestions to the Government. Had I been told that the Chief Justice
was the proper medium I should at once, for obvious
reasons,
have declined the appointment,
but the
answer
was that the
medium of Communication
was the
Colonial Secretary.
It was
manifest by his conduct that
my advent afforded him satisfaction, but having resolved
to enter upon my duties and perform them with
as little friction as possible.
I affected to disregard the discourtesy with which he treated me.
Colonial
On
Dec.