CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 440

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days, as short kind previously.

:had the Commission borne in mind the statement made by Spekeikai as circumstances of his being imprisoned/ to the I beg here to repent the made by him because I made by find it has been omitted altogether in the evidence at the statement taken down at the Enquiry) I do not think they would have considered the fact of my accepting bail coupled with the fact of the Chief Magistrate satisfying himself that he was worth the amount, of such moment as to remark on it in their report.

Speakai on being asked if he had not been imprisoned for debt, stated that he had, but that it was done at his request in order that he might rid himself of a partner who was squandering the money of the shop and that his only way of doing it was to get himself arrested and the shop sold off - this he said in Chinese, but as the interpreter was explaining it in English

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days, as short kind previously. :had the Commission borne in mind the statement made by Spekeikai as circumstances of his being imprisoned/ to the I beg here to repent the made by him because I made by find it has been omitted altogether in the evidence at the statement taken down at the Enquiry) I do not think they would have considered the fact of my accepting bail coupled with the fact of the Chief Magistrate satisfying himself that he was worth the amount, of such moment as to remark on it in their report. Speakai on being asked if he had not been imprisoned for debt, stated that he had, but that it was done at his request in order that he might rid himself of a partner who was squandering the money of the shop and that his only way of doing it was to get himself arrested and the shop sold off - this he said in Chinese, but as the interpreter was explaining it in English 914
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days, as short kind previously.

:had the Commission borne in

mind the statement made

Sreikiai as

by Spe

circumstances

imprisoned/

to the

of his being

and J.

I beg here

to repent th

made by him becmise I made by find it has been omitted altogether in the evidenar

at the statement.

taken down at the Enqu

Enquiry)

I do not think they would have considered the fact of my accepting

coupled

him

ወዳ

bail

God with the fact of the Chief Magistrate catisfying himself that he was

worth

437

the amount, of such moment

on it in their

as to remark report . Speakai on being

if he had not been

remarte on it

asked

imprisoned for debt, staked that he had, but that it

I was done at his

nquest in order that he might rid hingelf of a partner

who was

the

squandering

money of the shop and that his only way yo

doing

ve was to get himself

arrested and

he

shop

sold

off - this he said in chinese

hut as

the

interpreter

was

explaining it in English

914

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