CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 651

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to inform Your Lordship -

that when Mr Mackintosh forwarded the Petition

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transmitted in my despatoh W. 240 of the 23rd ultimo, he to requested that I would telegraph to Your Lordship - asking that the Sunday Pargo Working Ordinance might not be sanctioned

until the Petition had

reached Your Lordship.

I informed Mr

2.

• Mackintosh that while I

had

had no

a

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objection to forward

e telegram at the expense of the Petitioners containing

such a request on their

I did not feel

own

behalf,

justified in making any- such request on my

part.

own

Thereupon, after

some correspondence

as

to

the terms to be used, Mr Mackintosh agreed to the telegram

- as sent, and he persisted in

his request that it should be forwarded,

notwithstanding

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