CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 313

2.

I

left the Colony only

}

this

three days before

-days before the date

despatch, and though,

notwithstanding my

of

illness, I left

no arrears in the current business,

I had not then been informed

that the Blue Book was completed,

and so was en

entirely unaware

that this despatch

or what.

3.

was to be sent,

was the purport of it.

As there are

be published among

Her

312

the Reports of

Majesty's Colonial

Colonial possessions,

and as the despatch in other respects

conveys

an

.

impression which from

my knowledge of Mr. Stewart's modesty qwo of disposition, he would have been

am certain that

the last to intend, and also.

expresses much with which I do

not a

altogether

concur,

I would

suggest that the despatch should not be printed at present,

· passages

4.

in this communication, especially

those on the subject of the Opium Farm; which should not, I think,

be

Course

I

hope to be able in the

of a few weeks to

to furnish~

-

another report; but if the pressu

on

Pe