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to a letter (and enclosures) addressed to Your Lordship by the Honourable F. Bulkeley Johnson, a Member of Legislative Council, under date of 10th December 1881, and I presume that this paper containing the observations I submitted in my defence has been transmitted to your Lordship in accordance with my prayer expressed in paragraph No. 43 of those observations.
2. I would, therefore, not venture to trouble your Lordship with any further observations on this case, were it not for the fact that His Excellency the Governor has gone, under date of 6th January, so far as to deny the main point of my defence as contained in those observations, by stating in a letter addressed to me, under that date, by the Private Secretary that my memory was at fault in permitting me to say that what I appear to have told Mr. Johnson and others was so told to them by the positive instructions of the Governor.
3. Under these circumstances I feel compelled to submit to Your Lordship copies of the three documents connected
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