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"the China Mail newspaper (quoted
in the despatch) had no reference
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to the above requirement, but to
the latter words
of
the Standing
"Order; vir: "And before going into
Committee on the said Bill the
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same shall be published three
times in the said Gazette!"
The
Bill
"The mistake here pointed out by the :Attorney-General is one of many proofs of the imprudence and unfairness of persons at the distance of half the globe "treating seriously unsupported and unverified statements in Colonial newspapers; and, especially, of founding upon such newspaper report: insinuations against Colonial Governments and Legislatures.
" Bill had been published twice since
the first reading, and it was the
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- third publication only which it was
desired to dispense with. For at
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that time it was understood that
the meeting at which this was done
was the last that would be held
" before the expected receipt of. Instructions for the alteration of the Constitution of the Council, and it
:thought well to finish the "business then pending."
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regards the steps taken and the notice given preparatory to the
introduction
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