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Deacon & Hastings Solicitors
"Hongkong
"Eongkong
payment of pension. William Baker for
Petition
William Robinson, G.C. M. Gy,
1897, from Governor dis
N° 272 of 14th December,
Enclosure I in despatch
COPY.
Dated the
1897
415
ENCLOSURE
[RETT JAN 18
Minute by the Captain Supt. of Police.
The Petitioner does not attempt to traverse
the evidence which was adduced against him at the enquiry
which the Crown Solicitor and self held into his conduct
in connection with the Wa Lane and Cheung Hing Street gam-
bling houses.
The evidence satisfied me that I had no other
course open to me but to recommend the Petitioner's dismis-
sal. The Crown Solicitor had no hesitation in endorsing that
recommendation, and His Excellency the Governor appears to
have had no difficulty in coming to the conclusion that on
the evidence the Petitioner deserved to be dismissed, and ac-
cordingly His Excellency dismissed him.
It is unnecessary therefore for me now to
re-capitulate or comment on the evidence in this case.
But the Petitioner complains in effect that
he was not accorded a fair hearing.
In paragraphs 10 & 11 the Petitioner com-
plains that (a) the Captain Supt. of Police presided over
the enquiry whereas the enquiry ought to have been presided
over