Sir,
I. Mir lee.
28th October 1880
My Lordship that, under these circumstances, it was scarcely in accordance with official usage or conventional courtesy for His Excellency to telegraph an invitation to the King otherwise than through the Consulate General, and to keep me in ignorance of the intentions of the Colonial Government as to according His Majesty an official reception.
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It is moreover impossible for me to disconnect the expressions used by the Governor's Private Secretary, on board the mail steamer, from similar language directed to me by His Excellency himself at a sitting of the Legislative Council on the 10th September 1880.
I may refer your Lordship to the copy of a despatch dated 28th October last, to the address of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, from the firm of which, for the last six years, I have been the Executive head, on the subject of an onerous and exceptional tax levied on an Industrial enterprise in this Colony.
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