CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10] — Page 436

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22 OCT 08

Chambers,

Supreme Court, Kongkong,

16th. September, 1908.

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sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excel- -lency's letter of 8th. instant enclosing copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State dated 5th. August requesting Your Excellency to ask me for an explanation of my action in the matter of a letter which I addressed to the "China Mail" with

reference to the action of the Chamber of Commerce in connexion with the proposed alteration of the Long Vacation.

2.

Extreme pressure of work prevents my forward -ing that explanation till the vacation: but in order that an acknowledgment of the Secretary of State's request should go by the next mail, I have the honour to submit the following remarks which I beg may be forwarded to the Secretary of State together with a copy of r letter to Your Excellency of 19th. June, as well as the first 3 paragraphs of my letter of 6th. April.

The points to which I wish at once to draw the Secretary of State's attention are the following:-

3.

(a).

That on 6th. April (referred to in my letter as 6th. Aurust in error) I wrote to Your Excellency on

the question, and intimated that I was unwilling to revive the

controversy; but that if in forwarding to the Secretary of

State the request contained in the second part of that letter

Your Excellency thought it necessary to refer to the correspond-

-ence, I requested to be allowed to express y opinion on the

correspondence. I had always intended to submit the whole

question to the Secretary of State.

(b).

That I assumed that Your Excellency concur-

-red in the view that the matter should be considered as dead,

as in the correspondence which followed in connexion with rợ

letter