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His Majesty's Government in the Colony.
The former question is based on live cases which came before me on the application of Mr. Rennie, Auditor General for both the Colony and the Consular Departments in China and Japan, and I enclose his letters and the nil reply received at my hands from the Acting Colonial Secretary.
3. The first direction from the case is briefly as follows: a criminal is sent down from a Consular Court (Canton, China) to be tried before the Supreme Court of the Colony, as by law directed. The trial comes off, and afterwards a Bill is made out by the Crown Solicitor against the Consulate for $104 1/2, of which £6 are taxed off.
4. The remaining $98 1/2 is there for the Crown Solicitor, $47 3 for the Attorney General, and $50 for Postage.
5. When attention was drawn to this charge, a rule without notice given was struck out on two points - 1. the infraction of or authority received, and this to the personal advantage of the Law officers of this Government. For I have known no less than eight different Crown Prosecutors here since the Establishment of the Supreme Court, and I have never heard of such a charge as that now made in the case under remark. This is so...