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despatches relating to finarice, that

I had sent from time to time since

November 1877 to the Colonial Office, -

with the view of removing

the serious

misconcertion with respect to

my

financial work which runs through Your Despatch M42 of the 8th of

distilas April 1879. In that dispatch

you say: -

"The propocal (of a reduction in

taxation) is apparently

the large amount

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based

upon

balances in

haus.

I have pointed out that

glance through the various Despatches I had the honor

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laying before Lord Carmawon aud

yourself would have shown that

the very moduate reduction

I indicated as

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taxation

being posible, was

founded upon the Actual and

prospective increase of revenue. Whilst I deeply regret that a

misconception

this important

point, - most important in its bearing on the question whelter this

Colony

was

financially prosperous

or otherwise, and perhaps of some

little interest as

regards my

official reputation, _ ehould have Arevailed in Downing Street,

I

f

happy to say

that

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