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of the newspapers. As the meeting of the Finance Committee at which this resolution was passed was not a full one, the effect of the resolution was to stop all votes of money during the recess, I requested that the question might be reconsidered at a full meeting of the Committee, and I laid before them a Minute (of 17th July) pointing out the great utility of the Finance Committee, which had now been working satisfactorily since the year 1892, when the loan was borrowed from Mauritius. I also informed the Committee that in 1878 Governor Hennessy had made a suggestion that the meetings of the Finance Committee should, in future, be open to reporters of the press but that this suggestion had been strongly disapproved by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, and I added that, under the circumstances, I should not feel warranted, even if the resolution were carried, in giving