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3. These written statements were fully considered by me, together with the parole evidence of the 80 witnesses examined, before I arrived at the conclusions embodied in my report.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
HERCULES ROBINSON,
Royal Commissioner.
The Right Hon. Sir H. T. Holland, Bart., G.C.M.G.,
&c.
&c.
&c.
No. 77.
THE RIGHT HON. SIR H. T. HOLLAND, BART., G.C.M.G., M.P., to ADMINISTRATOR MAJOR-GENERAL W. H. HAWLEY.
(No. 70.)
SIR,
Downing Street, March 19, 1887.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, for your information, copy of a letters from Sir J. Pope Hennessy relative to his suspension from the Government of the Colony.
I presume that Sir J. Pope Hennessy has already left the Colony, but if this should not be the case, I request you to inform him that it is not the fact, as argued in the enclosed letter, that his suspension by Sir H. Robinson has in any degree prejudged or prejudiced the consideration of his case, or that Her Majesty's Government, in empowering Sir H. Robinson to adopt this course, had any intention of the kind.
have, &c.
The Officer Administering the Government.
No. 78.
(Signed) H. T. HOLLAND.
THE RIGHT HON. SIB H. T. HOLLAND, Bart., G.C.M.G., M.P., to ADMINISTRATOR MAJOR-GENERAL W. H. HAWLEY.
(No. 73.)
Downing Street, March 21, 1887.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 11th of February, commenting on the petition forwarded in your despatch of the 17th of January.t and answering the charge contained in it of undue bias on your part against the Roman Catholic members of the community.
I enclose a copy of a despatch‡ which I have received from Sir Hercules Robinson on the same subject.
The Officer Administering the Government.
No. 79.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
H. T. HOLLAND.
THE RIGHT HON. SI H. T. HOLLAND, Bart., G.C.M.G., M.P., to the RIGHT HON, SIR HERCULES ROBINSON, G.C.M.G. SIR,
Downing Street, March 21, 1887.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 19th of February commenting on a memorial addressed to me by ten Roman Catholics in Mauritius, relating to the recent Royal Commission of Inquiry in that Island and other matters connected therewith.
I have, &c.
SIR,
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No. 80.
COLONIAL OFFICE to SIR J. POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.
Downing Street, March 26, 1887.
I AM directed by Secretary Sir H. Holland to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 31st of December and the 20th of January last.*
I am to inform you that after consulting the Law Officers of the Crown, Sir H. Holland is satisfied that the exceptions which you have taken to the legality of the proceedings of Sir Hercules Robinson, in conducting the inquiry into the affairs of Mauritius, are not well founded.
Sir J. Pope Hennessy.
(Signed)
I am, &c.
ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.
No. 81.
THE RIGHT HON. SIR H. T. HOLLAND, BART., G.C.M.G., M.P., to ADMINISTRATOR MAJOR-GENERAL W. H. HAWLEY. (No. 78.)
SIR,
Downing Street, March 29, 1887. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 17th of January forwarding two petitions having reference to Sir J. Pope Hennessy's suspension by Sir Hercules Robinson, the first addressed to the Queen, and stated, in a covering letter addressed to you by Sir Virgile Naz and Mr. E. Basset, to be signed by 4,267 inhabitants of Mauritius, and the second addressed to the Secretary of State, and signed by Dr. O. Beaugeard, Mr. G. de Coriolis, Mr. C. Antelme, C.M.G., and Mr. C. Planel, unofficial members of the Council of Government.
2. I have also to acknowledge the receipt of your subsequent despatch of the 11th of February, forwarding the signatures to the petition to the Queen, together with a copy of a report upon the signatures drawn up by the Acting Receiver-General and the Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary.
3. I have to request you to inform Sir Virgile Naz, as representing those who signed the petition to the Queen, that I have laid their petition betore Her Majesty, who was pleased to receive it very graciously, and that Her Majesty is fully satisfied that a just and careful decision will be secured in the matters to which it relates.
4. I bave also to request you to inform those gentlemen who signed the second petition that their representation will receive the careful attention and consideration to which, from their position in the island, it is entitled.
The Officer Administering the Government.
No. 82.
I have, &c. (Signed) H. T. HOLLAND.
SIR J. POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G., to THE RIGHT HON. Sın H. T. HOLLAND, BART., G.C.M.G., M.P. (Received April 4, 1887.)
SIR,
Mauritius, February 25, 1887.
I HAVE the honour to enclose a copy of a letter§ from his Honour Major-General Hawley stating that you directed him by telegram (the date of which he does not give) that there cannot be considered a question of reinstating me as Governor until I have arrived at home, and that unless I leave by next opportunity I incur grave responsibility. The letter adds that the Acting Receiver-General is instructed to issue half pay to me from the date of the suspension of my commission to the date of the departure of the
next mail via France.
Whilst reserving the official and personal rights referred to in the despatches noted Dec. 18, 1886. in the margin, I shall forthwith comply with your instructions, and leave Mauritius by the next French mail.
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81,
Jan. 17, 1887.
I have, &c.
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(Signed)
J. POPE HENNESSY.
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The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
No. 68.
Nos. 54 and 69,
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Nos. 44, 50, 54, 57, 58, 66, 67, 68, and 89.
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(Signed)
H. T. HOLLAND.
Sir H. Robinson.
• No. 71.
↑ No. 56.
No. 74.