No. 19
               
            
            
            
            
               I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 5
               of the 
21st of December enclosing a printed pamphlet, with other
               documents, containing observations by the Chamber of Commerce of
               
Victoria on the statements made by you in your despatch of the 
21st of
                  March 1865.
               
               I have to request that you

 will inform the Chamber of Commerce that
               I do not think it necessary or advisable to enter into or prolong a
               controversy upon the contents of a despatch written two years ago under
               circumstances entirely different from those of the present time, and
               upon a subject on which no practical question of administration now
               depends.
               
               I indulge a hope that before long any feelings of rivalry between
               different sections of the Colony will disappear, and that all parties
               will cheerfully give that cooperation which is so necessary to the
               reputation and welfare of their country, in developing the appropriate
               resources of each part of the united Colony.
               
            
            
               I have the honor to be
               Sir,
               Your obedient servant
               
Carnarvon