CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2] — Page 155

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to a letter (and enclosures) addressed to Your Lordship by the Honourable F. Bulkeley Johnson, a Member of Legislative Council, under date of 10th December 1881, and I presume that this paper containing the observations I submitted in my defence has been transmitted to your Lordship in accordance with my prayer expressed in paragraph No. 43 of those observations.

2. I would, therefore, not venture to trouble your Lordship with any further observations on this case, were it not for the fact that His Excellency the Governor has gone, under date of 6th January, so far as to deny the main point of my defence as contained in those observations, by stating in a letter addressed to me, under that date, by the Private Secretary that my memory was at fault in permitting me to say that what I appear to have told Mr. Johnson and others was so told to them by the positive instructions of the Governor.

3. Under these circumstances I feel compelled to submit to Your Lordship copies of the three documents connected

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154 to a letter (and enclosures) addressed to Your Lordship by the Honourable F. Bulkeley Johnson, a Member of Legislative Council, under date of 10th December 1881, and I presume that this paper containing the observations I submitted in my defence has been transmitted to your Lordship in accordance with my prayer expressed in paragraph No. 43 of those observations. 2. I would, therefore, not venture to trouble your Lordship with any further observations on this case, were it not for the fact that His Excellency the Governor has gone, under date of 6th January, so far as to deny the main point of my defence as contained in those observations, by stating in a letter addressed to me, under that date, by the Private Secretary that my memory was at fault in permitting me to say that what I appear to have told Mr. Johnson and others was so told to them by the positive instructions of the Governor. 3. Under these circumstances I feel compelled to submit to Your Lordship copies of the three documents connected 1

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154 to a letter (and enclosures) addressed to Your Lordship by the Honourable F. Bulkeley Johnson, a Member of Legislative Council, under date of 10th December 1881, and I presume that this paper the observations I containing submitted in my defence has been transmitted to your Lordship in accordance with my prayer expressed in paragraph No. 43 of those observations. 2. I would, therefore, not venture to trouble your Lordship with any further observations on this case, were it not for the fact that div Excellency Excellency the Governor has cow, of 6th January, gone under date 10 far as to deny the main point of my defence as contained in those observations, by stating in a letter addressed to me, under that date, by the Ptrvate Secretary that my memory in permitting was at fault me to say that what I appear to have told Mr. Johnson and others was so told to them by the positive instructions of the Governor. 3. Under these circumstances I feel compelled to submit to Your Lordship copies of the three documents connected 1

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to a letter (and enclosures) addressed to Your Lordship by the Honourable F. Bulkeley Johnson, a Member of Legislative Council, under date of 10th December 1881, and I presume that this paper

the observations I containing submitted in my defence has been transmitted to your Lordship in accordance with

prayer expressed in paragraph

No. 43 of those observations.

2. I would, therefore,

not venture to trouble your Lordship with any further

observations on this case, were it

not

for the fact that div

Excellency

Excellency the Governor has cow,

of 6th January, gone

under date

10 far as to deny the main point

of my defence as contained in those observations, by stating in a letter addressed to me,

under

that date, by the Ptrvate Secretary

that my memory

in permitting

was at fault

me to

say

that

what I appear to have told Mr. Johnson and others was so told to them by the positive instructions of the Governor.

3. Under these circumstances I feel compelled

to submit to Your Lordship

copies of the three documents

connected

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