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to make any sacrifice whatsoever. to - "Keep the case out of Court!
He adds:-
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expart from pecuniary ruin "I dread the consequences affecting my position in the service"?
From his letter to me of the 25th November, 1881, and its enclosure from his Counsel, M. O'Malley, it will also be seen that whilst I was ready to give to his solicitor a statement of the necessary details for the action, if it should have come on, he and his Counsel deprecated my doing so. Late that evening he waited on me, whilst Mr. O'Malley remained outside the gate at Government House, and explained the conditions on which the withdrawal of the action was arranged. Those conditions included all the retractions he subsequently made. They also included a condition to which I could not agree, that W. Hayllar should be allowed to attend a public reception at Government. I willingly agreed to apply to Your Lordship to allow me to cancel all that had been written about W. Hayllar's letter of complaint as he had withdrawn it. But it was impossible to overlook the misconduct of which he had been guilty and allow him to enter Government House. On this Dr. Chisel's negotiation with him broke off for a few days. Subsequently it was resumed, and completed without...
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to make any sacrifice whatsoever. to - "Keep the case out of Court!
He adds:-
10.
apart from pecuniary ruin "I dread the consequences affecting my position in the service"?
From his letter to me of the 25th November, 1881, and its enclosure from his Counsel, M. O'Malley, it will also be seen that whilst I was ready to give to his solicitor a statement of the necessary details for the action, if it should have come on, he and his Counsel deprecated my doing so. Late that evening he waited on me, whilst Mr. O'Malley remained outside the gate at Government House, and explained the conditions on which the withdrawal of the action was arranged. Those conditions included all the retractions he subsequently made. They also included a condition to which I could not agree, that W. Hayllar should be allowed to attend a public reception at Government. I willingly agreed to apply to Your Lordship to allow me to cancel all that had been written about W. Hayllar's letter of complaint as he had withdrawn it. But it was impossible to overlook the misconduct of which he had been guilty and allow him to enter Government House. On this Dr. Chisel's negotiation with him broke off for a few days. Subsequently it was resumed, and completed without...