CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5] — Page 583

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Colonial Secretary. The reasons for which I did not telegraph to Your Lordship asking on behalf of the Unofficial Members that you would withhold your sanction of the increased salaries voted by the Council for this year, are briefly stated in Mr Deane's letter of the 21st ultimo, and are more fully explained in a speech (copy enclosed) which I communicated to the Council at its last meeting, in reply to the speech of Mr. J. H. Whitehead.

Your Lordship will observe that in this speech I deal at some length with the position and prospects of the Colony, which Mr. White... (Encl: 3. 30th April 1891.) ...had most seriously impugned, with a view of showing the inability of the Colony to pay the increased salaries now that it is saddled with the increased Military Contribution.

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4 577 Colonial Secretary. The reasons for which I did not telegraph to Your Lordship asking on behalf of the Unofficial Members that you would withhold your sanction of the increased salaries voted by the Council for this year, are briefly stated in Mr Deane's letter of the 21st ultimo, and are more fully explained in a speech (copy enclosed) which I communicated to the Council at its last meeting, in reply to the speech of Mr. J. H. Whitehead. Your Lordship will observe that in this speech I deal at some length with the position and prospects of the Colony, which Mr. White... (Encl: 3. 30th April 1891.) ...had most seriously impugned, with a view of showing the inability of the Colony to pay the increased salaries now that it is saddled with the increased Military Contribution. It appears the original text was in English, and there was some non-English text ("ચિત્ર કયા નામ") that doesn't seem related to the OCR text provided. I've ignored it as per the instructions. The text has been formatted into HTML using tags, with corrections made according to the rules provided, such as fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, and indicating a missing word with "...".

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4 577 Colonial Secretary. The reasons for which I did not telegraph to ~ Your Lordship asking behalf of the Unofficial Members that you would withhold your sanation of the increased salaries voted by the Council for this year, are Mr briefly stated in Me Deane's letter of the 21st, ultime, and are more fully Enel: 3. 30th april 11891. explained in a speech (copy 201 enclosed) which I communicated to to the Council at its last meeting, in reply to the speech of Mr. J. H. Whitehead. Your Lordship will observe that in this speech I deal at some length with the position and prospects of the Colony, which Mr. Whitehead had most seriously impugned, with a view of showing the inability of the Colony to- pay the increased salaries now that it is saddled with the increased Military Contribute f } ચિત્ર કયા નામ

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577

Colonial Secretary. The reasons

for which

I did not telegraph to ~ Your Lordship asking behalf of the Unofficial

Members that you would

withhold

your

sanation of

the increased salaries voted

by the Council for

this

year,

are

briefly stated in Me

Deane's letter of the 21st,

ultime, and are more

fully

Enel: 3. 30th april 11891.

explained in a speech (copy 201 enclosed) which I communicated

to the Council at its last

meeting, in reply to the

speech of Mr. J. H. Whitehead.

Your Lordship will

observe that in this speech I deal at some

length with

the position and prospects of the Colony, which Mr. Whitehead had most seriously impugned, with a view of showing the inability of the Colony to- pay the increased salaries

now that it is saddled with the increased Military

Contribute

}

ચિત્ર કયા નામ

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