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reported to have said on three occasions as to slavery (or Fr Eitel calls it, Bondage) in Hongkong in order that it may be forwarded to Lord Stanley and that I make it a very valuable and truthful Statement of fact and verify it.
teller and be Many His Lordship may easily refer to and mark the passages which together and separately justify in his opinion his statement that the Chief Justice has rushed into wild exaggeration.
I have to Signed Jay John Smale, Chief Justice.
re the questions to which this refers.
Weller the 26th August by I ask attention to the conclusions he sets forth at the End of the Memorandum, conclusions which flow from the facts Collected, conclusions entirely consistent with the views set forth by Fr. Eitel and the assertions of the Chief Justice uttered as they affect Hongkong.
I must here repeat that the bona fides of the request of these gentlemen to be allowed to associate to put down Kidnapping in 1878 has been best tested by their Ever action.
Jar a) I know, Entirely sanction The delay first in writing