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numerous
piracies and murders
in the Empire of China or Chinese
waters. This man.
man wad
captured
in Hongkong last January by
belonging to a
some seamen
Chinese gunboat but was resoued
- by
the Police
rendition was
2.
a
after
The
which his -
applied for.
case has been
long time before the Police - Court. It was commenced before Mr. Wise who was afterwards removed to the Supreme Court as Aoting Registrar. The evidence
had
had therefore to be taken de novo
by Mr. Mackean, and great. difficulty was for sometime experienced in finding a proper and trustworthy interpreter. This
difficulty
way
was
finally
over come a
on
his
German Missionary who was — passing through Hongkong
home and who spoke the - dialect used by the witnesses, having kindly consented to wait a short time in the Colony and
his assistance.
give
3.
On the 3rd instant the
Police
Mi