200
3
1 Ordinance W. 4 of that
year
was
approved by the Earl of Kimberley and again when the Earl of Carnarvon addressed to me his despatch no.51 of
the 18th of May 1897.
2.
some
At the public meeting of ~
in
of the European Community October 1878, and from time to time in
the columns of the local
Gadvocates
arr
newspaper which
exceptional mode of treating
chinese criminals, it has been asserted
that the branding and banishing system had been heartily approved by Mer Majesty's Government and that the Earl of Kimberley had given a willing assent to the Ordinances No 4 of 1871 and W. 4 of 1872 on receiving a faithful report from the
Gov.
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Governor of the extraordinary growth of orime and especially the frequency of - the burglaries and highway robberies - accompanied by violence that distinguished
the
year 1871, and that his lordship - had been convinced that a grave
outburst of crime in 1871 had been
the
consequence of the stopping in 1870 of the illegal branding system by the Lieutenant Governor.
3.
to avoid
I have, hitherto, endeavoured
reference
to the circumstances any under which Lord Kimberley had been induced to advise the Queen to assent to the Branding Ordinance N. 4 of 18%2..
I
was
content to have based
my recommendation, that the branding.