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on 31st December 1881, reminding

him once more

of his promise

the bill. To this letter

to pay

(and enclosure)

care) I likewise

received no

reply.

4. I then wrote a

brief note

to the Private Secretary (of which

I have no

copy) asking him, on 6th January 1882, to let me know if the Governor would grant me a few minutes' interview. To this note I received the reply, copy of which I now enclose, dated "Private Secretary's Office, 6 January 1882

reply

"/

and on this

I shall have to remark

further on. It is

for the reason

that this reply deals with official

letters I received

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received from and sent to you, that I find myself compelled to forward to you, for official record, copies of the above-mentioned letters and of the whole correspondence which led up to and flowed from this reply of the Private Secretary of 6th January.

5.

Immediately on receiving

this letter from the Private Secretary,

I wrote to him a letter, copy of

which I enclose, dated 6 January,

explaining the object I had in view in asking for an interview with the Governor. To this I received no reply.

6. I then addressed, under date