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leave of absence in that, month, to which Your Lordship
• pleased to accede.
was
2
in
The despatch question having been written without information of the circumstances which compelled " me to ask for leave _ circumstances which would have taken too long an explanation to be sent by telegram - I trust that my despatch 1:322 of he 19th November giving this information, and
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my despatch
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W, N:367 of 19th December reporting
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"that I had returned to the
an absence of ~
Colony after
only three weeks, (or one week before my leave had expired), will have shown to Your-
Lordship that I did not
without cause,
away I resumed
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and that
ty as soon as the
duty
beneficial change to a cold —
climate had enabled me to
do so with advantage. I may
add now that
my absence
during these three weeks from
the