CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 535

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in then Report: -

They say in

lee have how I wenty Five Littings, extending

seven weeks. be have examined

la

perion of

infrards of Fifliy

Witnesses, and a

' of evenments, and have extended our

'a

number

vast mas

that the most remarkable instances in the present

over

Arse were the two occasions

engiuries into

matters some

of which, irrelevant,

www so woven

into

and

0 of they may now appear,

ax

· Combined with the immediate subject of enquiry,

that it was not considered safe to leave them

'unexamined!'

It is in

fact hara

harw for any

tribunal

above all one constituted as the Commission was

to avoid Collateral issues;

issues which go to the Credit

gr

Anw

• protiev

as for

instance)

}

of parties Amourned

to the Commission not less than to

Hois Bealeen

Myself Compelo

mo

to

br

remina His Exc

that

Minutes of wide of 7th Sund July 1888. pp 2

when Heis

Acting

Colonial Secretary, by appointment, came down

to raise as

many

new-sex

the one affecting my

Credib, the other that of allr. May, the former

relating

to the Attorney Generalship, the latter to the office of Superintendent of Poliar: lent

J

dire

neither of them relating directly or in discolty- to the baldwell Inquiry.

On both

both occasions,

notew

who

given by

the

Chairman of the intentions of the officials

representative of

His

Excellency to this gentlemen

whom they concerned.

Both times the Counter-Accuses attendin

On Mr. Meay's instance, the night of Cross

examination wav

fruly renciaed.

In

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