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nications from His Excellency
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loss to understand the marked
change in His Excellmery's tone, as same al- -legelter unwilling to believe that an inoffor- -himale difference of opinion, between His-
Excellency and myself
and myself on the subject-of Public Sanitation, which arose at a interview on the 12th July last between us, in which His Excellency
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Away by anger as to accuse me of impro- -perly conferating with the Surveyor General to defeat His Excellency's policy in that matter, can have colored his judgement- subject altogether foreign to it: But uncomfortable.
sable and difficult-as the personal position is, in which His Excellency's decision has left me, I certainly should not have troubled your Lordship with the case were it not one of a Public Gravity altogether outside the merits of the private controversy between myself and a subordinate:
I do not propose to trouble your Lordships with any comments at length upon the correspondence which sufficiently conveys its own story: and the present position may be thus briefly summarised:
Towards the end of last year brought to my notice that Dr. Bilsharry
was
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By
my laying a formal complaint 2th Jan'y 1880 Against him before His Excellency the Governor.
Dr. Bilsharry was in reply directed to conform to the terms of Sir Arthur Kennedy's minute on the same subject 5th March 1873, by which he had been informed that his salary had been fixed with the distinct understanding that it was to command his whole time and services.
C.S.O. no 70 "Jany 1880.
P. 210.
About this time the necessities of the Colony having required the erection of a temporary Civil Hospital of which His Excellency the Governor had decided that Dr. Bilsharry should take charge, Dr. Bilsharry in reply to this proposal - he put into writing and which I forwarded by one to the Governor with a remark in which I considered it my duly to designate Dr. Bilsharry's objections frivolous causes.
In reply His Excellency stated that Dr. Bilsharry should show a disposition not to carry out his legal instructions and ordered him to take charge without delay.
This Dr. Bilsharry did, but on the 16th February he represented to me that he was suffering from exhaustion and overwork and unable to perform his duties and requested fourteen days leave of absence.
This complaint having led to the appointment of a Commissioner of Enquiry consisting of Deputy Surgeon General Mackinnon C.B. and Dr. O'Brien, and the concluding paragraph of their report - by these gentlemen in which they found that the duties of Dr. Bilsharry
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Nary to express Regulations entering upon private practice.
His attention being 29th Dec 1879 C.S.O No 44 called to the rule upon the subject-Dr. Luking 30th June 1872
treated the matter as a
Cartney
which
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