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etiquette, namely, the question whether the Governor is bound to accept the invitations to dimmer of the Officer in Command of the Troops, the other arising out of a written statement made by the General that in some remarks and in a subsequent letter dated 15th of March, I

Office

had, in exercising my gratuitously insulted him

as

as a

Governor, General

on

Officer in Command of Her Majesty's - Forces: and with reference to which, inviting him to let me know what __

objected to, he could not.

words he

remember the words used at the meeting

nor would he refer

me to any passages letter, but simply.

or words in my reiterated his statement.

2

On the dinner question, I had, letter of the 15th of March 1880, said to the General:

in my

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all

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"But even

my

if you thought I and

Predecessors were

not speak to me,

wrong, why

before declining

Government House invitation and beginning a correspondence?"

a

The unwisdom of beginning a correspondence of this Kind is shown in the more serious step taken by the Major General, who

now

has seized the opportunity of Her Majesty's Birthday to interfere with the usual_ State dinner given by.

me as the Queen's

Representative at Government House.

3.

In accordance with

my

imvariable practice Her Majesty's Chief