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that the bolonial Government caused
considerable
a
monetary
loss by
cancelling my leave, when I had
obtained
an
"Indulgence passags
the troopship which left that
bolony last November-
яву
leave
was stopped in respect to the case
Rex. V. Bird, in which
Engineer
English
had been committed to
stand his trial for elbauslaughter,
my
evidence being considered of such importance to the Government- by the brown Solicitor, yet only four days after the Groopship
sailed, the Government decided not to proceed with the case.
And
on my petitioning through the How. D.P. W to be allowed a free passage,
(which
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