220
force of a most circumstantial narrative but communicated also to other persons by Dr Eitel, the Private Secretary to the Governor, in the names of His Excellency, such acquation having subsequently been declared by His Excellency, and admitted by Dr Eitel, to be wholly untrue.
I conceive that, under these circumstances, which are fully set forth in the papers I have forwarded to Lord Kimberley, the question raised by them, so far as regards the interest of the Public, with which I am alone concerned, has passed altogether beyond the scope of any controversy affecting the private differences between His Excellency and Mr Q. C. Hayllar.
An insult has been offered to the Legislative Council by the attempt, disclosed in the correspondence, to make use of its members, an instrument in the dissemination of a malignant slander, since acknowledged to be false, and the Public service has been dishonoured by Dr Eitel's maintenance in, and recent promotion to, offices of important trust in the Colony.