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"of the Government departments and into the Colonial expenditure generally, you intend to allege any opposition to the Committee which he was instructed to appoint, you have no warrant whatever for the allegation. When it was decided by the Secretary of State that a Committee should be appointed, His Excellency's one anxiety was that the Committee should set to work as speedily as possible. At the first ensuing meeting of the Legislative Council, he announced his intention of appointing a Committee consisting of the Chief Justice as Chairman, the Harbour Master, the Honourable Messrs Chater, Keswick, yourself, and Messrs Wodehouse and May; and on the return of the Chief Justice from leave, as soon as certain