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publicly criticised the actions of

"Downing Street", and has given

forcible expression, in his public

speeches, to the general feeling of

the inhabitants of Crown Colonies, to the effect that Earl Grey laid down the right principle of x governing such Colonies when he

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was

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wrote in his book on Colonial fill other

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Polioy, (Vol. I. page 22). that, while

absolute control must be reserved

in all matters to the Imperial -- Government, the Colonial Office

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in England should, nevertheless,

generally abstain from" meddling -interference in the details of

local administration".

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It is said that Mr. Bulkeley Johnson has also publicly quoted the well-known

of the late Mr. John Godley, the Founder of the Canterbury/ Settlement, (and recognized by some of the foremost statesmen of the present age as a high p authority on Colonial and other affairs), who, while in New-Zealand, put record his opinion to the effect that "it " would be better for distant Colonies to "be governed in their local and municipal "administration by the Devil himself

rather than by a Bureaucracy of what Iphone the spot rather than by a "Angels in Downing Street."

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debt due from My Governor &

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