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Hong Kong.
DOWNING STREET, LONDON.
21st July
189 3.
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C.F. 11.5. 1893.
I have the honour to enclose, for the information
of the Secretary of State, copies of a correspondence which
C.A. 16.5.1893. we have had with the Principal of the School of Practical C.P. 20.7.1893. Print of Pro- ceedings.
Engineering at the Crystal Palace in reference to the case
of Mr F.Southey, a Hong Kong Government Scholar who is
studying there, and who has been fined £5 at a Police Court
for an assault on a plain clothes Constable, a sentence
which on appeal has been affirmed.
I have seen Mr Southey several times about this
matter, and have arrived at the conclusion that the case in
the Police Court would probably have ended favourably to
him if he had employed a Solicitor, or applied for an ad-
journment to bring forward evidence in his favour, instead of electing to have it dealt with summarily by the Magis-
trate, and I gather from the letters of the Principal of the School of Practical Engineering that he has formed much
the same opinion.
In these circumstances I beg to suggest that the
merits of the case would be met by the Secretary of State's
authorizing us to continue the payment of Mr Southey's Scholarship after warning him as to the necessity of exercis- ing greater discretion in his proceedings in the future.
Mr Southey's
The Under Secretary of State.
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Colonial Office.