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General being made aware of this, called the attention of the Government to the irregularity of the Magistrate's action, and submitted that he should resume the hearing of the case at once.
7. Mr. Wodehouse then deprecated what he called a somewhat unconstitutional interference with his discretionary powers as the Magistrate conducting the case, and intimated that it would be necessary for him to read in Court the correspondence which had led to his deprivation of the ordinary discretionary power vested in him.
8. The position of affairs was considered in Executive Council, and a letter was forwarded to Mr. Wodehouse, in which he was informed that his letter contained a reflection on the Government which nothing in it could justify.