CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5] — Page 77

I have the honor to be,

with the highest respect,

Sir.

Your Most Obedient,

Humble servant,

...

Q Sauce

That is usual. But I think

these dispatches, reporting,

discredit the Colonial Regulations, capital

omission 9 Excitations,

Commons held 2?)

? M10 Jun

M.12.

9:544.

Executive.

Ackc: Nold

5041 Jung Jing

JUNE 7 1856

Government Offices,

73

#Offices, Pretoria,

Houghing, 7th April 1856.

I have the lower to report that, on the 1st March, 7 Chinese

were tried and convicted at the

Criminal Sessions of the Supreme

Court, on a charge of Murder, committed during a burglarious

attack

on a Silversmith's live in

the village of Lokumpoo, to the Eastward of the City of Victoria. Many petitions were received

The Right Honourable

Henry Labouchere, M.P.,

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