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on
that trial that I thought professing to be too unwell-
to attend in the witness-box.
of
the Supreme Court, had on the previous Saturday
made an Excursion to Aberdeen
on the South side of the
Island about 10 miles distant
from Victoria.
That this
was
the bona
Several
fide impression of persons in Court. I am in
a position to know, but it appears to
have been brought
as to
impute
my
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deception
health and
disinclination to attend Court,
because I had made excursions
i.e. taken Carriage airings
in
the Environs
of
Victoria.
The imputation of Mr.
Anstey was not in
question,
but the mere verbal ground
on
which he made it.
On this paltry quibble
I was
say
that
a verdict
of guilty was given against Mr. Wilson. and I imagine
from
the sentence
of the Chief
Justice that Mr. Hulme regarded
the matter as
petty
and Contemptible.