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a seconder for his threatened motion on the subject, and subsequently he referred it to Your Lordship's decision.
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The position in the matter of my late Private Secretary, Dr. Eitel is somewhat clearer. He had been instructed to allow Members of Council, who officially applied for that purpose, to read my despatches explaining my conduct respecting the incident of the 27th of April, 1881, with respect to which there were incorrect stories in circulation. In reply to his enquiry I added that if anyone asked for details he should be referred to me. Dr Eitel was to say nothing whatever on the subject, but simply show the despatches to Members of Council who asked to see them.
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Unfortunately he went beyond my instructions, and, in a long gossipping conversation, into which he was drawn by Mr. Johnson, he gave a version of the circumstances why Mr. Hayllar was excluded from Government House three years before, a conversation full of blunders, being based not on what he heard in Government House or from me but on outside stories. He told Mr. Johnson that all this conversation was private, but Mr. Johnson said he would repeat it to Mr. Hayllar, who at once brought an action for ...
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