CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9] — Page 155

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Those Justices happened to be M. Lyall and myself; we investigated his complaint which

was

regations nature, and

merely of a

reported

we

the result to the Govemon.

14.

two of

Our report was published in

the

newspapers,

but your Grace will hardly believe me when I say that neither published it in its integrity. In both that report was garbled and the third, with the

means

of correcting

the

urow,

omitted

to notice it and joined subsequently in the system of misrepresentation. The object of the garbling but is not direally associated with

was

plain,

Mare of Public Pre

that

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my present purpose - Suffice it

our report distinctly showed that Mr. Lyall and I as " visiting Justices

"for

a visit

the current week paid "of inspection to the Gaol accompanied "by Dr. Murray Colonial Surgeon, and "in accordance with the desire of Stis "Speellency the Governor make enquing

15. There

was no voluntary" acting

on my part _ what I did was

done in the ordinary course of duty-

#

individual them

as M. Aurrow and

every hoiton well knew, supposing

to have gone through the somewhat necessary process of reading the report which they professed to criticise.

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