CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4] — Page 99

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"the semblance of a charge of neglect" of duty since I have been in the Colony burst when "dight intermissions ever since, both in private and latterly in public.

"insults so froes that they have been the subject of newspaper comment.

Your letter now under acknowledgement, & your having "been compelled to assert authority with a peremptoriness as painful to yourself as it possibly has been unpleasant to me. I feel bound to say that what your Honor is pleased to allude to as a peremptory exercise of authority I cannot but regard as a series of deliberate unprovoked insults which commenced the day when I landed in the Colony and have been continued with but slight intermission ever since.

"and have caused myself to be treated as an object of sympathy by persons with whom I had previous acquaintance and which moreover had not the slightest bearing to the questions raised by your Honor". I should not have alluded to a matter which must before long form the subject of enquiry by the Home Authorities were it not that your Honor has treated it in your letter now under acknowledgment, and I now refer to the subject with deep regret.

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47 95 "the semblance of a charge of neglect" of duty since I have been in the Colony burst when "dight intermissions ever since, both in private and latterly in public. "insults so froes that they have been the subject of newspaper comment. Your letter now under acknowledgement, & your having "been compelled to assert authority with a peremptoriness as painful to yourself as it possibly has been unpleasant to me. I feel bound to say that what your Honor is pleased to allude to as a peremptory exercise of authority I cannot but regard as a series of deliberate unprovoked insults which commenced the day when I landed in the Colony and have been continued with but slight intermission ever since. "and have caused myself to be treated as an object of sympathy by persons with whom I had previous acquaintance and which moreover had not the slightest bearing to the questions raised by your Honor". I should not have alluded to a matter which must before long form the subject of enquiry by the Home Authorities were it not that your Honor has treated it in your letter now under acknowledgment, and I now refer to the subject with deep regret. 02 14 "criticism than rsons with"
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