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of the 4th ultimo, of Sir S. Walrond's Minute whom it was referred to on the same date and see me, dated
the 4th instant, and
of the Acting Colonial Secretary's Minute and Report of the 14th instant, and
invite attention to the question how it came to
pass that you were allowed to say that such omissions were made in the official documents
You had been instructed to send
Official Despatches.
I have, &c. (signed) Frederick Stewart
Acting Colonial Secretary
Arb 180.
The Surveyor General to the Colonial Secretary.
C.S.O. No.340567/1880.
Surveyor General's Office,
18th December, 1880.
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant enclosing a copy of
an unofficial note I wrote to the Colonial Secretary in 1870 and a minute
on that note.
The circumstances ... is not in accordance with
my recollection of
the interview
with the Governor
and I perceive
difficulty in placing
it in a
position of some delicacy
as to the terms in which I should reply to
your letter.
15. I certainly remember that the tendency of
the Governor's remarks, Stewart being Colonial Secretary,
was