on 31st December 1881, reminding
him once more
of his promise
the bill. To this letter
to pay
(and enclosure)
care) I likewise
received no
reply.
4. I then wrote a
brief note
to the Private Secretary (of which
I have no
copy) asking him, on 6th January 1882, to let me know if the Governor would grant me a few minutes' interview. To this note I received the reply, copy of which I now enclose, dated "Private Secretary's Office, 6 January 1882
reply
"/
and on this
I shall have to remark
further on. It is
for the reason
that this reply deals with official
letters I received
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received from and sent to you, that I find myself compelled to forward to you, for official record, copies of the above-mentioned letters and of the whole correspondence which led up to and flowed from this reply of the Private Secretary of 6th January.
5.
Immediately on receiving
this letter from the Private Secretary,
I wrote to him a letter, copy of
which I enclose, dated 6 January,
explaining the object I had in view in asking for an interview with the Governor. To this I received no reply.
6. I then addressed, under date