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of the authorized device1 I have referred to above, I had no personal concern whatever.
Subject however to my most emphatic protest against the quasi-official form in which the Governor has conveyed it not improper to reproduce through you the details of a conversation, which was, at His request, understood to be, and which I have respected as, private one.
I have no objection to repeat the very simple remarks made by me, to which I assume he alludes. With reference to an observation made by His Excellency, I mentioned to him that at a garden party given in my grounds to the King of Hawaii, of which a photograph had been taken, it having been intimated to me, by a friend, that Lady Hennessy had said her husband would be annoyed if she were to appear in the same group with Mrs. C. Hayllar, though I was completely ignorant at the time of the cause of any such objection; I had, out of a feeling of politeness to one of Sir Johnson's guests, ordered the negative,