CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12] — Page 542

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8.

The question is one of considerable importance both immediately and

prospectively. If I

own

or my

being induced to decline

to sit in the council, I would then

be allowed

may

for

on

it,

я

to advise Your Lordship

should dissuade any very large

Concession, because it is bound to

be misinterpreted and to fail of

uneful effect. I would, subject to

any compromise which can be effected in regard to gaol extension, allow matters to take their course. If the unofficial members resign, I should

take steps to fill their places, and

in the event of the Justices

Ø

the

Chamber of Commerce refusing to make the two nominations which it is their

privilege to make, or of their nominees

Oy

даму

own

a short time leave their places, as was done in Ceylon 20 years ago, Vacant.

Section IV of the Royal

Instructions of the 19th January 1888

lays down that "the Legislative Pencil

" shall not be disqualified from the

" transaction of business on account

"of

any

vacancie

among

the members

"there f"; and I have no doubt whatever

that firmness will at all events check a movement which is mis-

chirous in its tendencies, which is prouted by only

a

fer, and there

not of the greatest weight in the

Community, and which is not

grounded in

any

real grievance.

I are feally