The Attorney General remarked that the Prisoner's statement was certainly corroborated by the evidence of the wounded woman, since deceased, who, in her declaration taken at the Civil hospital, when cross-examined by the Prisoner, said that, when he was wounded he came down to attend her.
"Under these circumstances it is unanimously Resolved, that Tw-a-on be reprieved till further orders."
(True Extract.)
Littleton Stewart
Clerk of Council.
Annex No. 1014
6 Sept. 1867,
No. 313.
C:O
AUG 19 1867
Government House,
Aug 4th, 1867
I have the honour to state that, subject to the approval of Your Grace, I have appointed Mr. John Simpson Assistant Portmaster General of Hongkong to be Postmaster General.
His Grace,
The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,
etc. etc. etc.
Lo.
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