CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 262

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Itri Excellency Major General Donoran desires

to be furnished with a copy of

the the minutes

Waking to the slatement which Colonel Hall had made to the effect that he had been told

by the General that be would not be a huber

the General's abience-

of

Council during

Ior Scellency the Major General Commanding

denied ever having, made

amy

such statement,

adding that Colonel Hall had raised the

question himself

and that he the General-

had told him he could not give him information on the subject.

amp

Its bellency added that as the matter had been discussed at the lack meeting, he night Express his private opinion that Colonel Hall was not entitled to a seat at the Council,

while

while the major General Commanding was Will wiltin the limits ofhis command being absent

only on a tour of inspection in the Strait's Settlements.

The Governor said that the questions work

reapsed by the Major General was an important one

one and the opinion he had expressed

to the Council that Colonel Hall (who on

the

Major General's departure for Singapore had

assumed the Command

of the Carrisin in

Hongkong) was not entitled tow seat at the

Council was a

very

serious the, for it cast an doubt on the long established practice

practice in this Colony and on the validity of the Councils proceedings, and was not unlikely to Cause: trouble; it had indeed in the Governor's opinion

already