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other and more influential officers of the local Governments.-
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I have in obedience to Your Lordship's instructions given my attention to this subject, but I am not aware of what possible means personally to arrive at further knowledge of any facts connected with this transaction that are not disclosed in the depositions taken at the time when it first was reported to Major Caine, for in that Mr Tarrant ...
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I have in consequence consulted the Registrar of the Supreme Court as to the reason of the Prosecution being dropped, from whom I find that the Information was first filed by Acting Attorney General Campbell against Mr Tarrant on the 1st October 1847; that the trial was to have taken place on the 15th Idem, and was postponed in consequence of the absence of "Lo Keen-tein" who was considered by Mr. Campbell an important Witness; and that at the next sitting of the Criminal Court in December 1847, at which Mr Campbell presided on the Bench (Chief Justice Hulme being absent