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referred to the practice of the Imperial Parliament,
as well as to a precedent in this kolony in 1859, in support of his ruling.
This much however I would
mu-
went
say, as regards the reason thus stated for refusing to place the notice of tion in the voder book, that
my letters to your Lordship, smalosing the pa- pere referred to, had for their object to prefor a complaint that His Excellency had declined to give me an
opportunity to call the attention of the Legislativn bouncil to
matter of great and im- mediate interest to the Community,
and, as an
argument in support of that
complain! I stated
nothing
my opinion that
but a searching enquing such
is I proposed to ask for,
could AL -
move the feeling of scandal which had arisen in the Colony and satisfy the claims of justice.
That
inquiry, relating to the conduct of an officer in the Colonial Service, it sumed to me should, at allgrents in the first instance, be in- stituted here, and it is impossible to deny that the question this at issue
was