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Action in

telegraphing to your

Lordship on the 24th altimo

and

asking

that until the recipt

of the Memorial promised in

that telegram, your Lordship

will withhold

your

Sanction of

the increased

the payment of Salaries to the officers of this Government.

2.

Sir William Des Voeux

has stated the reasons for

which

he did not forward the telegram referred to, and the other

explanations contained in his

des

spatch render

on

ther observation

further

my part unnecessay, especially

in view of

of the fact that your

Lordship's.

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Lordship's further instructions

in your telegram of

referred to in 2nd instant

may shortly be

expected in the Colong .

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the

I must however point out that of Your Lordship's final

decision

on this question

is

delayed

until the receipt of the promised Memorial, the framing of the

Estimates for

next

year

will

have to be postponed until

an l

date.

extremely inconveniently late

offer.

I dum it

my duty to

State that Jeannot

agru

in the

opinion expressed in the last paragraph of the letter addressed

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