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Newspapers that the man had been presented by the Attorney General before the Supreme Court for breach of the Deportation Ordinance, for which offence he was sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour, the Chief Justice reserving a point of law in the prisoner's favour.
4. Subsequently the Chief Justice expressed to me his regret that he should have been compelled to deal in public with a rather delicate case involving the act of the Governor in ordering the deportation of a Chinaman; but I assured him I should not have the slightest objection to any remarks he might be justified in making from the bench; and I was able to add that the prosecution had been actually undertaken by the Attorney General without my knowledge.
5. In a former case, where a Chinaman had delayed paying for Crown land and where the Attorney General, nevertheless, continued to press the action against him, even after the payment had been made into the Treasury, Mr. Phillippe pointed out to me that he was entitled to do this by his prerogative power as Attorney General; and