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letter (copy of which I enclose) has withdrawn his name from the objectionable letter, and has moreover recorded it as his opinion that the question of the payment of the increased salaries voted should have been postponed until the consideration of the Estimates for 1892.
The other members have made a very qualified apology; and more
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Encl: 6.
# 4th May, 1891
Encl. 7: 4/5th May, 1891.
I append this together with the replies made by me separately to them and M. Keswick.
5. I have already mentioned in my telegram of the 25th ultimo, that the motion for the non-payment of the promised increase in salaries is simply the outcome of an acute feeling of resentment on the part of the community at the increase of the Military Contribution
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