CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8] — Page 43

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Only the following questions, required solution; viz:-

Colonial Secretary's

Was the

name used in

I said it was —,

the way estortion practised

as it was

Avas

alleged — and if so, what steps should be taken to check

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openly

Courses

disreputable and injurious to

the Colony ?

to questions of

were ever

this Kind

gone face of the clearect proofs that Colonel Caine's name was used

into, and, in the

for purposes of extortion, I alone

was made to undergo the torture бра

a Criminal accusation - deprived of Iffice, and my prospects in life

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altogether jeopardized.

But the day has gone by for

now enquiring into the truth or otherwise of the extortion yoken of, and I only want, payment of

payment of what is

due to me, and a partial compensation

for my

Cosies.

To this end I would ask your recellenes to be at the pains to inquire perconatis of the now official members

of your regislative Council, and of the Several Members, reciding in Kina at the time of the principal Mercantile houses in the Colony, whetter, from all they had heart on this subject, they

were not

perfectly satisfied that, in acting