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The Earl Grey.
Fir J. H Davis,
22nd batober 1826.
Victoria, Hongkong,
2 Inclosures.
N123.
Receiver
N. // If 12th August,
Replying to Despatch
as to
by Dr Bowrings.-
the Government Hongkong certain charges against
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Extract from a case of 54 Chinese prisoners tried before C. B. Hillier Esqr, Assistant Magistrate of Police, and subsequently forwarded to the Chinese Authorities, on the 25th April, 1846.
At eight o'clock on the evening of the 24th April 1846, police constable George Hall, when on duty.
on the Queen's Road near the
a
house of Mr Framjee & Parsee merchant_ the only European house in that immediate -neighbourhood, met a native of China- canying a plank, which had,
d just before been. stolen from a timber-yard in the ricinity. As soon as the constable approached, the
plank
· was dropped, and the bearer endeavoured
to effect his escape
over the hills. He
was
apprehended by Hall, who ordered him to carry
: the plank to the Police Station. This
he