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be well to have
2.
very
an
authoritative decision.
The first point relates to a not
serious matter of etiquette, namely the question whether a Governor is bound
to accept the invitations to dinner of the Officer in Command of the Troops.
was raised in this
Until the point
particular instance by eMajor General
Donovan, I have never Known in this
or elsewhere a case in which
on
Colony the Officer in Command of the Troops :refused to dine at Government House the fround that the Governor does not - choose to accept invitations to dine out:
The other point is set forth
3.
in two official letters dated respectively the 22nd and 24th of March 1880. In
- the first, I invite General Donovan's attention to an
a
allegation of his that at
meeting at Government House in connection with the Irish Distress Fund,
and in a
March (a
letter of mine of the 15th of ~
letter he describes as written
clerk because it was in the
by any handwriting of my
Private Seevetary
though signed by me) gratuitous
offered to him by
insults were.
me as
brown Civil Officer in the Exercise of
me
my Office as Governor, and I not unnaturally invited him to let Know on
what words in the remarks
at the meeting and in
letter he based so serious a charge. In his
my
reply, the Major General cannot
give
the
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