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PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE

Reference:

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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,