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4.

I would theritre have

transmitted without further comment

Your Lordship

Mr. Wodehouse's letter to

and the entrequent correspondence connected with it, but that he has forwarded to me a second lettr addraped to your Lordship in which in one place he challenges his immediate suspension, and in another an asks your Lordship to cancel a letter of the Acting Colonial Secretary of the 2nd of June 1880 in which Mr. Wodehouse clicited the reasons why, I was not dispored to have him quest at Government Souce.

as a

5.

It is sometimes difficult to

draw the line between social and

Official misconduct. Of the twos acts of

of Mr. Wokeloure which were

brought to my untice in April last

One A

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then,

them

for the

was

purely social. I

first Emi

was informed Council Aat neither

by a membe he wor his wife

were ou

speaking

Grins

with Mr. Wodehouse in consequence of violent and abusive language used by Mr. Wodehous. in litters written to the lady.

I satisfied unself that

sumpelt

lady's

the description given by, the backup husband of the language

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justified. Mr. Wodehouse tes not

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