HC Deb 12 November 1888 vol 330 c905
MR. BAUMANN (Camberwell, Peckham)

asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Why Sir John Pope Hennessy has not returned to Mauritius; and whether he has been granted extension of leave, and for what reason; and when he is going back?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Baron HENRY DE WORMS) (Liverpool, East Toxteth)

It had been arranged that Sir John Pope Hennessy should return on the 30th of October; but he has been granted an extension of leave, on the ground that his presence is necessary at the trial of an action at law to which he is a party, and which has been set down for trial in this month. He is going back by the mail steamer which leaves Marseilles on the 1st of December.