I do not attempt, at present
Her Majesty
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Government are
unable to give you any definite instructions
I should only letter
You. if it
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on this subject, and i
to them
so will be to
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leave it to you to devise indicated:
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to be submitted to
free for approval. You will receive
valuable assistance in this dipeoties from
Mr Lockhart, and other members of the Execu-
tive and Legislative Councils, and you will
doubtless, also consult with the leading
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I do not anticipate that
you will experience any great difficulty in
organising a suitable machinery for dealing
am confident
with the question and I have-little-doubt
that you will shortly be in a position to
submit to me detailed proposals on-the-sub-
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I now come to other questionswhich
are not treated of in the correspondence"
inasmuch as they are matters, of not of foreign policy
but
thét
of internal administration