the engagement. On condition of the withdrawal of the action, and His Excellency the Governor requests me to take such steps as will tend to a settlement of the case.
I state in reply that I hope to be looking into the matter.
DUNG
On examining the Documents, enclosed in your despatch, I find them to be so very informal that it would be useless to place them before the Authorities. Moreover, I submit that representations have sufficiently been made by the Compradore of Messrs Holliday Wise and Co, who, to avoid an obligation, trumped up a falsehood regarding hereditary disease in the family of the Bridegroom, involving a Commission being appointed by the Provincial Government to examine the family and its records, and take evidence on the point, and a considerable amount of Correspondence, both Colonial and Chinese, to express nothing of much indignation at the hardship of the Case, and after all, the sole cause of this man's repudiation of the Contract was based on pecuniary Considerations, of which I was assured by the Chinese Authorities long since, but yielded, of course, to what I believed was your better information.
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