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the honour, at the request of Mr. F. Bulkeley Johnson, of Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co., to transmit two letters of his dated the 10th and 19th ultimo (with several enclosures), addressed to Your Lordship relating to the circumstances under which Mr. J. C. Hayllar was excluded from Government House three years ago, to the proceedings thereon of Mr. Johnson in 1881, and to the withdrawal of action for slander arising out of some questions Mr. Johnson thought fit, as a social friend of Mr. Hayllar, and from a duty he says he owed to that gentleman, to put to my late Private Secretary, Dr. Eitel, during my temporary absence from the Colony.
I also lay before Your Lordship two letters from Dr. Eitel, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, of the 19th and 27th of December, 1881, reporting on Mr. Johnson's letter of the 10th of December and its enclosures, as far as those documents reflected upon him (Dr. Eitel), in allowing the action to be withdrawn and in making apparently contradictory statements. I do not profess to know Mr. Johnson's object in this proceeding. At one time he was anxious to have the whole affair investigated publicly at the Legislative Council table. It was pretty generally known that he would not...
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the honour, at the request of Mr. F. Bulkeley Johnson, of Mess Jardine
Matheson &C., to transmit two
letters of his dated the 10th and 19th ultimo (with several enclosures).
addressed to Your Lordship relating
to the circumstances under which Mr.
was
excluded
from
J. C. Hayllar Government House three
the
·years ago,
to
proceedings thereon of Mr. Johnson
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thought fit, as fuel et
in 1881, and to the withdrawal of action for slander arising out of some questions M. Johnson thought fit, as a social friend of Mr. Bayllar, and m from a duty he says
gentleman, to put to
he owed to that
my
late Private
Shoretary, D. Eitel, during my temporary
absence
to WH
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absence from the Colony.
I also lay
before Your Lordship two letters from Dr Eitel, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, of the 19th and 27th of December, 1881, reporting on Mr. Johnson's letter of the 10th of December and its enclosures, as far as those documents reflected upon him (Dr Eitel), in allowing the action
- as
to be withdrawn and in
making.
apparently contradictory statements. I do not profess to
2.
Know M. Johnson's object
in this
time he
some
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proceeding. At one
anxious to have the whole affair investigated publicly at the Legislative bonnail table. It was pretty generally
Known that he would not
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