CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11] — Page 358

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on this point than I have already

done in my Despatch No 276 of the 24th April last.

5.

I have throughout confined myself to the one

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pant ving the great

inconvenience of the General allowing himself to be made the medium of transmission of plans for the ocupation of ground, the disposal of which specially in the

is vested

in the Govemer of this Colony

by

letters Patent from the known.

l.

May despatch Nr 290, of the 7th of June last, brought the whole of that subject fully before your Grace, because on

in

consideration the General persisted faffirming that, by forwarding longe schemes for cccupation of lectonial property, and

Para 18.

276

5978/67

200

7545/37

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interfering with bolonial rights

258

without

the privity of this Government, he had not excceded his duty, and I may say

that such

statements

7.

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position is sheum by

the

my despatch above quoted

& to have been wholly untenable.

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On the other hand, when I suggested to the Secretary of State the expediency of reviewing the question of a surrender to the Colony of the Kuwbon the went of the Ganison here

Military

reserves in

being be dicepus to occupy them, I was suportang

so diminished that there would not

the consideration of a question which, so

far from being

new,

was

of long standing.

and in reference to which I

was

aware that the General aqued

quité

with me

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