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the Secret Museum at Naples, containing indecent pictures. I was told by the Governor that, on entering the boudoir unexpectedly, he saw Mr. Hayllar in the act.
that on one occasion, Lim "was trying to hide the book and that he then and there expelled Mr. Hayllar and sent the book after him." I was further told by the Governor that when Mr. Hayllar had arranged a steam-launch excursion, he returned, shortly after starting, through suspicion aroused in him by the demeanour assumed by the other members of the party, reading to them the note of Mr. Hayllar had sent at the moment of starting, and that the Governor, on returning to the House, found that Mr. Hayllar had been there on his excuse and had given annoyance.
The annoyance consisted in ...
118. What that annoyance was, I was not told previous to the time of my speaking to Mr. Johnson. I never asked a single question on these matters as I did not care to know. I was also told that Mr. and Mrs. Hayllar had subsequently, at a public reception, been excluded, under the Governor's order, by Major Palmer, then Aide-de-Camp.
31. After Mr. Hayllar sent in his letter of complaint addressed to the Secretary of State (27th July), I was told that the annoyance Mr. Hayllar had given, in April, on the public road, was but one of a series of annoyances he had caused for months before, and that it was in the Governor's interest, it was now necessary...