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instructions which he may have received from the War

Office the Governor will be at liberty to act upon them

as if they had been received direct from the Colonial

Office. This liberty apparently was in such a casO 85

this confined to hoisting the Royal Standard at Government House bad I so directed, the flags of the Headquarter House

and His Majesty's Ships remaining at half-mast as had

been arranged between the General Officer Commanding and

the Admiral before any intimation was conveyed to me. -

That the two telegrams should have been communicated within

half an hour shows a mistake somewhere, while the result

of the arrangement, affords I venture to think some justi+

fication for the last paragraph of my: Despatch No.55 of

12th. February, Had the Admiral been approached by the

Governor of the Colony instead of the General Officer.

Commanding it might not have been found so impossible to

obey the instructions received which seemed to bear upon

their face the assumption that arrangements had been made

at home in concert between the War Office and the

Admiralty.

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I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient

Humble servant,

Henry Allaha

Governor, &c..