D
at an
I shall then for at early meeting of the Legislative Council proposes an addition to attanding Order I that the privileges of debate do not go to the protection of libelson
libels on private
character.
As regards the interpreter
•Assow he has been long an object of suspicion and distrust. The Deputy Chief Magistrate Mr Mitchell after an experience of many years has declared that he cannot believe him on oaths. Assows statements before the
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Commission were distinatly disproved . The Chief Magiskates
who has been but a short
time in the Colony did not concur with his colleague to the necessity of
as to
dismissing Assow on accou of untrustworthiness - but reports that swother grounds
he had been,
woften
on the
point of recommending tir dismissal, but had
had given him one chance more before doing so. The opinion of
the Executive Council was unanimous that e Assow
was not
• not a fit
or fit person to be