CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10] — Page 288

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the

international questions your predecessor's

grave referred to in

despatches (with their enclosures),

of the 1st may (N:116) and of the 19th May ultimo; in which I i had felt it to be

my duty to

: act contrary to much tocal

of

· pressure, and, also to the opinion the Colonial Attorney General; for any

other action on my part might, in the opinion of the eAdmiral Commanding Her_ Majesty's Naval Forces on this

station, and of others best qualified to

to judge, have had the result of seriously embroiling the British Government.

5.

To

The precedents

now

made will leave comparatively- little difficulty to my

successors

in this Government, whenever

similar complications

arise in the future.

6.

"In my

may

my despatch

no

272 of the 17th June ultimo (which I hope will be read together with this despatch) I stated that the highest English diplomatie

authority

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