CO129-022 - Public Offices - 1847 — Page 90

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Board of Tra

such a

Petition, could

any ordinary

Care

only

dral with it as in

between man and man,

without eference to the Chinaman's character as

i freignen. He decided against the Applications. The affidaviti are annexed. And I think at this distance, it so be cash for any from merely reading them, whether he was

panker,

34 A

Cunning

to avail himself of

one

6 Brerance,

really

Fader who was ansions.

the provisions of our Law

to Get cheap justice, without much regard to his

outh.

The

refusal

to allow the Chinese to ine

Public Letter hand

in fermin panfarit, booth place on lingust fith _ Be Aug. 18th the Chinese Commissioner Rezing writes to die John Davis, a detailed account of the accidens stalis that sie J. Pavis Directed that the Consul should order Copper from collisions to be made good to the Chinese dufferers (of which not one word appears in the Public

ni a

notifications armored) and afthies for an indemnifies.

annexed applies

tion. Not one word of the previous application to

Judge Hulme at Hong Kong. Keying

heats it

24

supcheussion

a fresh complaint. Whether this was a

to some piece of cunning

on

his part - or owing

of the Chinese plaintiff _ or to more accidental

tilngs of often - we cannot sag. Sie John Paris,

Offer

however,

Strangely

answers, on the

saging somewust

the 25? by saying

that this matter was brought to his

" notice, and measures have deer laken for :taining

fi

the amount yea, and that the owner

"bing a poor man, will not pay any

Expences." It is

birg

ههه

AAW

The maker hand

indeed been bought is his wher", that he had

not ascertained that the Chinese Plaintiff had been put out of count three weeks before.

However, on learning this, Sie John Pavis, sustied

of serginging that he had been misled, rither by his van regligence, or the deffachteren of

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