CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4] — Page 106

It is annoying and irritating that every time I had met the Chief Justice in Chambers I had been insulted and sometimes grossly so, to an extent that was almost beyond endurance. I found that my appeals to His Excellency had been productive of no result, and that I was exposed to litigation and made personally liable for costs, and my position rapidly becoming more intolerable. I made an appeal to public opinion, the only controlling power that could secure to me respect without precipitating a crisis which was becoming ...

I was questioned as to whether any of my proceedings had been taken except in open Court. I was resolute that all my proceedings should be before the public, not because I was less liable to be insulted, but because the bankruptcies and intestacies were all of a character requiring publicity in the interests of the parties concerned. It will be in the recollection of His Excellency that I made a suggestion as to further publicity being given in the case of Chinese intestacies long before any question had arisen, and I further communicated with S. Eitel on the subject.

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...becoming unbearable. I made an appeal to public opinion, the only controlling power that the Chief Justice could respect with a new hope...

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It is annoying and irritating that every time I had met the Chief Justice in Chambers I had been insulted and sometimes grossly so, to an extent that was almost beyond endurance. I found that my appeals to His Excellency had been productive of no result, and that I was exposed to litigation and made personally liable for costs, and my position rapidly becoming more intolerable. I made an appeal to public opinion, the only controlling power that could secure to me respect without precipitating a crisis which was becoming ...

I was questioned as to whether any of my proceedings had been taken except in open Court. I was resolute that all my proceedings should be before the public, not because I was less liable to be insulted, but because the bankruptcies and intestacies were all of a character requiring publicity in the interests of the parties concerned. It will be in the recollection of His Excellency that I made a suggestion as to further publicity being given in the case of Chinese intestacies long before any question had arisen, and I further communicated with S. Eitel on the subject.

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It is annoying and irritating that every time I had met the Chief Justice in Chambers I had been insulted and sometimes grossly so, to an extent that was almost beyond endurance. I found that my appeals to His Excellency had been productive of no result, and that I was exposed to litigation and made personally liable for costs, and my position rapidly becoming more intolerable. I made an appeal to public opinion, the only controlling power that could secure to me respect without precipitating a crisis which was becoming ...

I was questioned as to whether any of my proceedings had been taken except in open Court. I was resolute that all my proceedings should be before the public, not because I was less liable to be insulted, but because the bankruptcies and intestacies were all of a character requiring publicity in the interests of the parties concerned. It will be in the recollection of His Excellency that I made a suggestion as to further publicity being given in the case of Chinese intestacies long before any question had arisen, and I further communicated with S. Eitel on the subject.

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