principles therein laid down refused to receive evidence and I submit there is no good reason for accepting it now.
This is not a question of mistaken identity but whether the witnesses for Government are the Chinese deliberately speaking falsely or not, and this, I submit, I have already pointed out, is not a question which we should be called on to consider unless there is good evidence in support thereof.
A declaration made by the witness No Ki has been forwarded to His Excellency for consideration. This, I submit, should not be received. It is not relevant to the issue. It is as regards Fei Loi all hearsay, and if it was received it would only be fair to give Fei Loi the opportunity of denying it. Where would the enquiry end?
In conclusion, I would repeat that unless the Governor in Council is prepared to say that this case is concocted out of whole cloth as regards the prisoners, and that there is a conspiracy against them, and that there is sufficient evidence to justify the Magistrate in finding a prima facie case, and I do not see any evidence of bribery or intimidation on the part of the Chinese Authorities. In every case of rendition charges of intimidation, procuring false evidence, perjury are made, but I submit that in the present case there is no reason for attaching any weight to them.
It is not even alleged that there is anything of a political nature in it or that the lives of the Accused...