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If the other colonies agree that it is desirable to move the Imperial Government to admit the colonies to representation at the next Conference, and to obtain from that Government and from the Government of India information as to their views upon the points herein raised, such request might be made by indorsing this memorandum, without the necessity of an immediate Conference, and the Conference could be held when the answers had been received. The Government of New Zealand, on receiving an intimation to that effect from the other colonies, would, on their and its own behalf, make the necessary representations to the Home Government. Probably, however, as the Colonies of Victoria and New South Wales use the telegraph most largely, the representations might best be made by them jointly; besides that they could more conveniently seek the views of the neighbouring colonies, and make arrangements which would, in the future, result in common action by all these colonies on telegraph questions. Julius Vogel. "Wellington, 4th April, 1876. [Approved of in Cabinet; and copies forwarded to the Government of each of the Australian colonies.]

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