NRS-961 | Copies of letters sent: Confidential

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This volume includes instructions and circulars of a confidential nature, letters on disciplinary matters such as a long reproof to Thomas Mitchell for his "neglect of duty and disobedience of orders", correspondence about irregularities in the sale of town allotments at Port Phillip in 1840, a letter to Captain Sulivan dated 3 November 1842 about occurrences at Tahiti; and instructions in 1834 to police magistrates requiring them to furnish confidential reports on crime, police, convicts and any other matters in their districts which it might be useful for the government to know about.

There is also a letter dated 15 March 1836 concerning the Governor's decision to supply seed wheat, as an emergency measure, to the Windsor farmers against their notes of hand to repay at cost price, a policy which was also followed by Gipps in 1839, together with other correspondence on the supply of wheat in the latter year of the drought. There are also various letters to Captain Maconochie about his private "pecuniary transactions" and some to Latrobe in Port Phillip including one of 17 December 1842 which refuses Mr Justice Willis's request to allow an information ex officio to be filed for alleged libels on him and contains the Governor's terse suggestion that the judge "refrain from such harangues as he is in the habit of delivering from the bench".

(4/3664; microfilm copy SR Reel 2997). 1 vol.

Note:
This description is based on Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.