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he has
thereby, as far as he had doing, thereby, the power giving his sanction to the supposition that he believed quite the contrary. If therefore Mr Tarrant did not really mean that which his actions in my opinion have
gone very far to insinuate, himself to blame, only for the loss of his situation, which might have been averted, had he only stood (as I have before observed),
was brought up for investigation before Mr Johnston,- what he now says - that he never intended to implicate Major Caine...
when the case-
13.
In
a
question of
this sort much must
depend
on the character of
the
parties. Mr Tarrant
came to this Colony,
and in the
early days of the Colony, when it was difficult to procure Clerks and Assistants, was employed by Mr Johnston then in charge of the Government,
he was
active
in these capacities, and
useful bustling
kind of person, but at
the same
time
over
whom
it was
judged proper to Keep Strict Watch. I personally know nothing of him, but what little I have heard is such that I
should
certainly not re-appoint him to Office of my own free will.
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