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any
blame to be cast on the Governors
on the Executive Council,
or on
the
Legislature of this Colony. They have
with one accord, as Your Lordship is
already
taken the action
which is deemed by all competent judges, Civil and Military, to be indispensable for rendering the Police effective for coping with Armed Banditti, and for dealing, generally, with the present circumstances of this Colony. In view of those circumstances, I trust
that, on the arrival of this despatch in England (at which period the
Colonial Legislature
will be in session),
Your Lordship will be pleased to
remove much discontent in this
community by causing to be telegraphed
to me the allowance of the Vote of the Legislature of £300, out of a local revenue
of £220,000, for an Adjutant
and Drill Instructor for the Police. It will be recollected that
this Vote secures at once
greater economy and greater efficiency than the other
arrangements which have
been