PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ¡ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE RIPKUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- | COPYRIGHT PHOTO, GRAPH-NOT TO
imposing upon you An obligation to
bay before your legislature,
or otherwise
to make public the
proponne that the
mail steamers should
cease to call at
King George's Sound in
the event of war. Such an announcement
would obviously
have been
highly..
unpolitic. It wa
necessary
although it
though the
ayer of
Hill remain dese from toppileg
winder befachunt that arrangements shut
boowever, to make
А
to made
it was
wever
pford
that they shald bo coined into effet except for the actural attack of hustilities:
in such
a
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provision for sure Contingency
as you
^
Nor
will suire
have gathered from
any despatite of the 22nd of May.
>
was
in contemplater that the mail steamers
should cease to call
al King "George's Sound without then provision being
Mide
for between Australian Mails
2. With reference to the 10th paragraphe
of your despatch I may observe that, which King Georger,