CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 119

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Clause II of the Commission,

but it would appear to be - consistent with the principle on which the Sonorable the

Colonial Secretary is, in the first instance, nominated to

succeed to the Acting Governorship notwithstanding

the higher preceder

precedence in the

Colony of His Excellency the

General Commanding

a

principle which is

probably

based on the

ground that the

Colonial Secretary having up

10

to that moment been the

chief adviser of the vacating Governor, has that untionate

acquaintance with all -

current affairs, which enables

him better than

any

one else

to take up the threads and _

carry

on the work of

Government.

On the arrival of

Mc Fleming after 6 months

absence I shall have been.

nearly

4 months in office,

and thoroughly

conversant

with