CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 245

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criticisin

and ay that y muy Public officer

of your action, or impute to you any negligence;

that the statement, as to which Pasked for Explan- nation was taken from a very respectable Lundin newspaper (the "Lunden

and China Telegraphe»")

and was

in

fact correct

although in my deap. I

did not assume

be so;

that

it to

-X.

and as its date shows,

that despatch

was written

and signed before the

receipt of your desp_

transmitting the Ordinance. 101041884

3. Iemeur in Jour suggestion that my desp.

-X. I would maart the

the paper, because in the substitute deep.273 he still quote ignon

the

wrong

the correction sent to him

3rd pers. note (m 1560

S.W. J.

242

no. 257 should be marke

"Separate", on the understandi

course that the original

of course

desp. (no. 273), to which

it was a

reply,

has been

removed from public

record in the Colonial Secretary's office.