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of the object with which the experiments were conducted, for which he was granted a temporary license, were carefully concealed. He carefully concealed his intention of raising the fee, until too late to prevent the completion of the contract. In doing so, we think His Excellency showed a want of that good faith, which his high office demands.
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In the next place, this measure was carried into effect, without being any previous notice to us, or our being afforded any opportunity of being heard. We regard this as an injustice. The grounds for the Governor's decision we do not know, but from a hint let fall by him, at the table of the Legislative Council, to which we shall again refer, it would seem probable that it was mainly based on the prosperity of the Company. But the prosperity of the China Sugar Refining Company is due to Sugar Refining and not to Distilling. We have shown His Excellency that Sugar Refining is not an industry which the laws of the Colony permit the Governor to tax. We believe it to be a novelty in fiscal administration...