Bill, and after considering it at a meeting of the Executive Council at which His Honour Mr Justice George Phillippe, and Mr Justice Russell were invited to assist, it was thought desirable to adjourn the second reading for a short time, in order to see whether this scheme could be developed in a manner which would be satisfactory to all parties. In an able speech made the following day at Council by the Chief Justice to which I would invite your special attention, he advocated an adjournment and called attention to grave inaccuracies in the speeches of the two learned Counsel who had been permitted to appear at the meeting of 30th March on behalf of the wholesale and the retail dealers in Opium.
It has been alleged that the whole of the retail trade in Opium will be destroyed if the Bill is passed.
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