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further,
and we venture to direct
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of his
Lordship's attention to certain remarks, which fell from the Governor, in the course of his addresses, at a recent meeting of the Legislative Council, as they appear in the report contained in the "Daily Press" newspaper, which accompanies this letter, and especially to those portions marked in red ink. We do not inclose the Government Gazette, as the report was mutilated in the process of transcription and much of the matter was suppressed. The accuracy, however, of the newspaper report is beyond impeachment.
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We do not pretend to lay much stress on the Governor's threat, ill-timed as, under the circumstances, it was, to add "naught to the amount" and thus increase the fee, payable by the Distillery, to Dollars Twenty thousand ($20,000), because, difficult as we admit it to be to tell whether His Excellency's public utterances merely represent a passing feeling or a settled conviction, we do not think His Excellency would care to venture on a policy of direct confiscation; but we cannot resist the conviction that the animus against Mr Keswick, the senior partner of our firm in China, as evidenced by his remarks, more especially that portion of them in which he referred to the public meeting of 1878, got up by Mr Keswick, having been altogether untrue statement.