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bills that have worked smoothly elsewhere to be adapted to local circumstances. The Colonial
Office is also in the same useful restraint on local extravagance, and when it occasionally, from want of appreciation of local conditions, urges needless outlay like that for the proposed Gave, it has been found possible by prudent Governors to postpone and ultimately avoid it.
I have no mind to try an experiment which might, in homely language, prove a leap from the frying pan into the fire. In England the majority of the people are now thanking God that they possess, in the House of Lords, a check upon rash and excited legislation. I think that in this Colony we should not be impatient of what some may call leading strings, but which are sound safeguards and advocation in a place where the vast bulk of the population consist of natives of the adjoining great Empire, semi-civilized and not too friendly.
Believe me,
(S?)/E. R. Belilos.
To His Excellency,
Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G.