being OVI the 18th April until Monday the 25th April, I on the 22 April received the following letter W543. from the Colonial Secretary :-
Hongkong. Colonial Secretary's Office 20th April, 1892.
From The Hon: The Acting Colonial Secretary To J. E. Wodehouse, Esq., C.M.G., Alice Memorial Magistrate
I am directed by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government to transmit, for your information and guidance, the annexed copy of a letter by the Acting Attorney General respecting the rendition case of Chung Sam alias Chan Fat-Cheung, and two others.
(Signed) 5/ Frederick Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Opinion of the Acting Attorney General.
My attention has been drawn to the action of the Magistrate in the rendition case of Chung Sam alias Chan Fat Cheung, Ushap alias Chan You and Irony Cheong alias Leung Fa.
A charge of perjury having been entered against Leung Yan one of the witnesses the magistrate last proposed to adjourn the case from week to week until the perjury case was concluded: on the morning of the 21st March the magistrate (Mr Ardehnal), stated