In reply to Your Lordship's despatch, No. 12, of
1
October, as well as to
M Secretary Cardwell's despatch No.
38 of
11 August 1865, (not answered by my predecessor)
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I beg leave to state that I consider the Colonial Secretary as
the best person to whom enquiries from the Mother Country
should be addressed, respecting absent friends.
2. That Officer, with the consent of the Governor, has
the whole Government Agency at his disposal.