CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2] — Page 216

3.

not

My Loved,

Mr. Johnson was ignorant of the main

facts, nor of the well known rule of Colonial life that a person who had been excluded from a public reception at Government thruse by the Aide de Camp, and sought for no explanation, should not have been invited to meet the Governor or his family

I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient

Humble Servant,

REC?

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Hongkong 21th January 1882

With reference to the com- munications, which I have felt it

to ba

to

ou

the

my duty recently to make

the subject your Lordship of the facts disclosed during proceedings connected with the recent action for slander brought by Mn T. b. Hayllar Q. b. against it E. J. Eitel, late Private Secretary of His Excellency the Governor, and at present Inspector of Schools and Supuvisor of the Staff of Interpreters, I regret to have now to trouble

your

Lordship with copies of additional correspondence which has passed between the Acting Colonial Secretary and myself and between Mr G. S. Northcote, Private Secretary of the Governor, and

and myself. The letter

Right Honourable

The Earl of Kimberly.

of

les Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,

for the Golonies,

Sondou

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