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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 include the Government Gazette,
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a good deal mutilated in the process of transcription into that organ, and much of the matter,
we refer to being obviously unfit for a sober official record, was suppressed. The however of the newspaper report accuracy is beyond impeachment.
We do not pretend to lay much stress on the Governor's threat, ill-timed, as, under the circumstances, it was, to add "a 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 utterance represents a settled conviction, or merely reflects a passing feeling, we do not think His Excellency would care to venture 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