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With reference to this subject I should mention that in view of the disrespectful character of the letter of the Unofficial Members of the 24th ultimo, and with the desire of causing them to withdraw it, rather than that I should leave open rupture between them and the Government on my departure from the Colony, I, with the advice of the Executive Council, had an interview with the Unofficial Members on the 27th ultimo, and I append a report of the remarks I addressed to them, taken by a shorthand writer who was present.
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The result of the interview so far has been that the Honourable J. J. Keswick, the most influential and most respected of the Unofficial Members, in a letter
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