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Excellency
had told me this
once said I would withdraw
Jat
from
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appeal to the law,
naut te
but that something
done with respect to the Proprietor
of the Newspaper in question
in order to vindicate my
character in public
as it had been assailed. At the same time
intimated that I could decide
nothing until I had
consulted my friends as to what further
steps I should take.
His Excellency at once said that some apology
should be forthcoming in the newspapers, and suggested that
a public trial might bring things
out about myself which would not be pleasant for me to hear. The latter suggestion
I at once repudiated and expressed
my readiness to have my case enquired into before any
impartial tribunal. At the conclusion of a somewhat
lengthy interview,
His Excellency expressed hopes
that the matter might be arranged,
but respectfully declined
to commit myself
to any
23.
It is not unimportant
to note that the official documents
supplied to the Editor of the "Hongkong Daily Telegraph"
were not supplied to either of the other two daily journals
published in this Colony, that the same
papers, or portion of them, were not published for general
information in the Government Gazette
till the evening of the
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