in para. 12. of the Subscription from Government funds to Reuters is not as full as I could wish. Telegrams home are frequently curtailed for want of funds, and I will not refuse to sanction a vote for this purpose.
in para. 15. "He" merely points out that the reference made in his despatch of the 29th of April 1881 to the work of constructing a Breakwater was overlooked when I wrote my despatch of the 9th of December last. I regret that such an oversight should have occurred, but need hardly comment on the fact that no report was received for some 3 years on the subject, and that when it was received, it was embodied in ...