CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2] — Page 121

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120 being the Catalogue of the Secret Museum, and the Governor then told me that in making any statement on the subject, as directed, to Members of Council, I should say that he could not specify the book in question further beyond this that it was a book containing the one picture he saw.

33. When Mr. Johnson came he appeared to know already nearly all I could tell him. After I had handed him the documents, he told me he knew the contents of them before, but that he principally wished to know the exact reason why Mr. Hayllar was excluded from Government House and most especially the meaning of the words "disgraceful conduct to a Lady" which occurred in one of the documents, then put to me a series of questions which I answered as I had been instructed. But I told Mr. Johnson at the same time that I myself had no knowledge whatever of these matters beyond what I had been told by the Governor to tell him.

34. In reply therefore, to questions which Mr. Johnson put to me, I told him all I knew concerning Mr. Hayllar's conduct as stated above, but as I was careful to confine myself to Mr. Hayllar's own individual share in these matters, I could not fully answer all Mr. Johnson's questions, some I had to decline to answer and others I could only answer evasively.

35. To these circumstances

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120 being the Catalogue of the Secret Museum, and the Governor then told me that in making any statement on the subject, as directed, to Members of Council, I should say that he could not specify the book in question further beyond this that it was a book containing the one picture he saw. 33. When Mr. Johnson came he appeared to know already nearly all I could tell him. After I had handed him the documents, he told me he knew the contents of them before, but that he principally wished to know the exact reason why Mr. Hayllar was excluded from Government House and most especially the meaning of the words "disgraceful conduct to a Lady" which occurred in one of the documents, then put to me a series of questions which I answered as I had been instructed. But I told Mr. Johnson at the same time that I myself had no knowledge whatever of these matters beyond what I had been told by the Governor to tell him. 34. In reply therefore, to questions which Mr. Johnson put to me, I told him all I knew concerning Mr. Hayllar's conduct as stated above, but as I was careful to confine myself to Mr. Hayllar's own individual share in these matters, I could not fully answer all Mr. Johnson's questions, some I had to decline to answer and others I could only answer evasively. 35. To these circumstances
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