CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4] — Page 17

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"Well, I said, at any rate it is quite impossible for things to go on in their present state." He agreed, "I quite agree with you, I do not think they can." I said, "What then is to be done?" He said, "I don't know." That led me to mention what you had authorized me to say, "that you find the duties of your office different from what you had any idea of, that of Barff re- your connot the carry work, then His Excellency will be disposed to consider the application favourably."

Mr. Gibbons said, "It is too late. I have not the means about giving him leave of absence." I said, "His Excellency authorized me to say that if you apply for leave, he will grant it." Now, I thought it all arranged, and I wrote home to say I might be expected. But then Sir ... something ... that you find the duties of your office different from what you expected, that upset it all. I said, "things must take their course." I begged Gibbons to think over what I had said, and I hoped that Sir John ...

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"Well, I said, at any rate it is quite impossible for things to go on in their present state." He agreed, "I quite agree with you, I do not think they can." I said, "What then is to be done?" He said, "I don't know." That led me to mention what you had authorized me to say, "that you find the duties of your office different from what you had any idea of, that of Barff re- your connot the carry work, then His Excellency will be disposed to consider the application favourably." Mr. Gibbons said, "It is too late. I have not the means about giving him leave of absence." I said, "His Excellency authorized me to say that if you apply for leave, he will grant it." Now, I thought it all arranged, and I wrote home to say I might be expected. But then Sir ... something ... that you find the duties of your office different from what you expected, that upset it all. I said, "things must take their course." I begged Gibbons to think over what I had said, and I hoped that Sir John ... Page 15 appears to be disordered due to OCR errors. The text has been reordered to form coherent paragraphs while preserving the original content as much as possible. The last sentence appears to be cut off and some words are missing or unclear, indicated by OCR errors such as "aa thorized", "adre", "hu Amate kow her". These have been left as is or corrected to the best possible interpretation without altering the original tone or content. The original scan's line breaks and spacing issues have been corrected to improve readability. Page 15 (end of page) was not revised to meet the exact 6 lines page indicator due to content being directly at the end.
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