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where the revenue has in the
meanwhile improved, a motion should be made for a sweeping reduction of salaries. The fact is,
as stated in
my
Confidential
despatch above referred to,
that
the motion is the offspring of
recentment against Your Lordship's.
Department, and was made in
furtherance of the intention
described in the second paragraph
of this despatch. The only
Colourable argument in support of the motion is the allegation
of a fall in house rents, coupled with the misrepresentation that
the increases of 1891 were approved
by
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by Your Lordship's predecessor
on the sole ground of rents having
rizen.
That was
dispored of
by the Colonial Secretary in his
speech in Committee on supping,
of which Your Lordship is already
in possession, and not even
an
attempt has been made to answer
the case which he then made out
against the motion. I now
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enclose
a
copy of a further
speech by the Colonial Secretary
on the subject, which has received no
reply.
4. Under these circumstances.
I venture invet respectfully to
again impress
m
Your Lordship
the
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