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"Justice of Shanghai to five years penal servitude for rape in
March 1888, I forwarded the petition to Sir Richard Nether-
Hennee,
the present Chief Justice of H.B.M's Supreme Court for China and Japan.
In reply the Court Justice
wrote me
a letter
Copy of which
15 May
I inclose, and I thereupon informed
the prisoner that I was unable
3.
to interfere
in his case
and thereupon submitted
4.
second petition which I understand he desires me to forward to Your Lordship.
I find, however, from the
enclosures
1599
enclosure to
despatch of
the
Secretary of State to the Governor of
this Colony,
No. 85
of
the 13th of
November 1885, that the proper
course in such
a case
is to forward the petition to Her Majesty's representative at Peking, by whom it will be referred for report to the Chief
Justice at Shanghai, and subsequently transmitted to the Foreign Office
for the consideration
of
Her Majesty's
Government:
I have accordingly forwarded
the petition in question to
Sir John
Walsham
for
him to deal with
as he thinks proper.
GR.