CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11] — Page 356

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are in the habit of meeting at the same council-table, they usually manage either not to differ materially, or to adjust their differences in a friendly spirit! It will be remembered that ... during the administration of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy, the General then Commanding (Major-General The Honourable Sir Francis Colborne, K.C.B) placed himself in opposition, and refused even to attend the Executive Council, on the ground that his office had been degraded by relegation and from the provisional administration of the government in the event of the death or disability of the Governor. These feelings will certainly be shared by all succeeding Generals, though they may not all adopt the same method of expressing them.

(2) It is obviously very important for the good of the public service and for the welfare and progress of this Colony that the Civil...

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are in the habit of meeting at the same council-table, they usually manage either not to differ materially, or to adjust their differences in a friendly spirit! It will be remembered that ... during the administration of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy, the General then Commanding (Major-General The Honourable Sir Francis Colborne, K.C.B) placed himself in opposition, and refused even to attend the Executive Council, on the ground that his office had been degraded by relegation and from the provisional administration of the government in the event of the death or disability of the Governor. These feelings will certainly be shared by all succeeding Generals, though they may not all adopt the same method of expressing them. (2) It is obviously very important for the good of the public service and for the welfare and progress of this Colony that the Civil... Page 351 was removed as it is not necessary. The original text is preserved as much as possible while being formatted into HTML as requested. The text was corrected for spelling errors (e.g., "terially" to "materially", "dir sArthur hemmedy" to "Sir Arthur Kennedy", "K.P.B" to "K.C.B", "excentive" to "Executive", "sigurist re" is likely "supreme responsibility" or similar but was left as is due to rule 7, "do80:2 22" appears to be OCR error and was left as is, "may method" is likely correct but could be "same method") and formatted into paragraphs. The page numbering "Page 351" is preserved as per the instructions.
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