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exception to that statement.
by
Sir
you
Wert
called upon
Michael Wick's Beach either to substantiate
it or to withdraw and apologize to the Governor
for having made it, but though you
have
-failed to substantiate it, and though you
admit in
you
your
Can no
letter
of the
now
28th instant that
longer maintain that the Governor
have not
was so told by Mr. Wayllar, you complied with the Semetary of State's
instructions and apologized to the Governor . is willing to believe
His Excellency
that this omission has arisen from a simple oversight on your part, and that Your Honour
will no longer appear
the apology.
to hesitate in making
I have 4.
(signed) b. May,
Asting Colonial Secretary.
C
Sir,
The Supreme Court,
Wongkong,
February 3rd, 1879.
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of His Excellency's letter dated January 31st 1879.
I am really at a loss to understand on what grounds His Excellency could believe that the omission of an apology oversight.
The Honourable
was
it z
His Excellency can scarcely have
The Acting Colonial Secretary.
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