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13th February 1857 and co which were published in the Government Gazette of the

February 1857. these report being explanatory "fcertain misstatements and & eaggerationsappearing

in a local newspaper relative

to the confinement of forty hoo persone employed by a Chinese baker named

Cheong

Pheon & Allum

to

a

Hum from whose

baking the supplegof bread

great portion of the foreign communityo the morning of the 10th

on

both

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1

January

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discovered to

be strongly impregnated with

The said Cheong

arsenic..

Allemand, nine of his employer being committed for hiab at the Criminal Sessions of the Te preme Court and the remainder, fortiff

two in number, detained

pending farther enquiry. by virtue of Ordinanceset 2 of 1857 as "persons dangerous to the peace and good

"

"order of the Colony ", this on bring a

detention.

matter

of stern, necessity in order

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