144
from official records with materials
for
an
Officer
attack
upon the Emigration
I cannot however find...
that this is the case.
Mr. Administrator
194-39
Fornochy pointed out in his despatch to Your Lordship, No 12 of 20 October, 1881, that the official records in question had been duly laid before the Legislative Council some time previous to the appearance of the article criticising the mode of conducting Chinese Emigration.
3.
Those papers were a printed form publicly laid before the Members of the Legislative Council, and the newspapers - as in every other case - had access to them.
The records that were so printed for the information of the Legislature and the public did not contain anything that it was not desirable in the public interest to make known, and nothing else was communicated to the Hongkong Telegraph. The Editor of that journal has also distinctly stated this fact more than once.
4
I take upon myself the entire responsibility of the publication of those records. After the abuses that occurred in connection with Chinese Emigration to Honolulu, sanctioned for so many years by the Harbour Master, &c.