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so precise as to obviate the necessity of exercising
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discretion in certain cases,
I apprehend that Mr Ewine,
having
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not demanding a legal right but making a request for
intervention within the
discretion of the Government.
As regards the
to
5.
the petition, knows perfectly
well that the Notice in
he
question was intended. specially to apply to communications such as this of his to which refers, as being written behalf of a person resident in the Colony (and that _ person a Chinese) who was
not
-principal complaint of my
Ewing' letter, the circumstances
of this, in various respects, unfortunate case, are out in the letters of the
fully set
exoting Chief Justice, and the
hel: 4+5 Colonial Treasurer, copies of
17th 198th April, 1888.
which are annexed. Stated
concisely, they as
are as
follows:
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