the
we have
Excellency subject not felt quite sure that you may not consider yourself bound by the decision of your predecessor in office, and may not refuse to
As
any refusal would involve delay and pother
send it on.
correspondence we deemed it
advisable to send a
copy of our
letter direct as well as to forward
the original through the
Government.
We trust Your Excellency
will not think after the above
explanation that there was anything
intentionally irregular or discourteous deciding to forward direct
in order to
by tomorrow's mail a
copy of our
hope
letter in question, and we
further that your Excellency will
disregard the
unconstitutional
precedent set by Sir G. William
671
Des Voeux, and will aid us in
this
subject with the Secretary of State. If Your Excellency thinks fit to do so there will exist in future no special
reasons for our adopting any
other than the regular course, and we shall have much pleasure in keeping strictly within the lines laid down by the Colonial Office
regulations.
We enclose duplicate and
triplicate copy of
14th instant and
beg to
request you to send on
our letter of the
copy of this
correspondence with our letter of 14th instant to Lord Knutsford.
His Excellency,
I have, etc.,
S2 Ryrie
Jokai
7. St. Whitehead
Major General G. Digby Barker, CB.
Administering the Government.