CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8] — Page 413

that the wishes of the Unofficials would be met

and that by being given enough rope they would probably hang themselves,

coloy have taken the measure

a man like M?

3. they would hitehead: they know perfectly well that he is a

or rather the sensible min

among them would hang M. Whitehead. Tus Crate would be still more littely to be

modified by Seither

effected. If

adding

proposal were modified Unofficial Members or substituting in lieu

the

to the

hshafer

one wer

are

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alather Scheming partisan, and they wil make report vide: Consider that it is only

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two of

I have in my

the outside residents, mind men like mil

in the colony.

Jackson of the Hoyning & Shanghai Bank. M "Thorburn, also a banker a one

1

f

thie

enquirers

into

The recent Treasury defalcations, shrewd headed no

of business who have no animus against the colonia

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government but rather the reverse.

There are

however objections to this course,

which

seem to me to outweigh the advantages. They are

(1) Such a commission. Whether com,

composed of comfficials

anomaly - certainly

an

icials alone. or of unofficials a outsiders combined be. I think I am

rather an right in saying, anomaly after a prolonged contest in the Council it would be a very inconvenient precedent for future and other frown Colonies.

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2. It would look like unconditional surrender to M

Whitehead, and I believe that such a course would; lessen confidence in the Colonial office, which is not very implicit already. For the outside public in the

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Fu/9/10 There is a time to concede of a time not to concede

On the whole it scame to me that further concession would be misunderstood

The second course is

Commission from

M. Johnson gives

2

(a) expense

to

appoint

·

1

a Commissioner or

colony,

outside the

two objections

to this course

A great and undoubted objection..

(G) That it will hardly satisfy M. Whitehead

This objection does not. I think,

hold water.

M: Whitehead says in his letter of 25 July (End-3

((

I agree on the Whole with His Excellency

し

b....... that the best possible Commission would be "one consisting entirely of parsons unconnected with

the colony.

it is held, which I do not hold, that a further Secucking into the circumstances of the colony

there can it seems

is

to me

hardly be two

to obtain

Enquiry required. opinions about the matter. For the best way an entrassed report and recommendations is to

and Commissioners from appoint a Commissioner