This is an entirely miscellaneous collection of communications received by the Governor direct from various British departments. The largest single subject, the winding up of the Convict Department and the handing over of its functions to the Colony, is dealt with in a series of despatches from the Home Office. Other departments represented are: War Office, Ordnance Survey Office, General Register and Record Office of Shipping and Seamen, Admiralty, Treasury, Board of Trade, Stationery Office; the communications are often of but slight interest in themselves, such as those which transmit copies of publications. For copies of the Governor's despatches to the Home Office, 1869-79, see GO32

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