CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9] — Page 306

2.

meaning of M. Parrant's letter and therefore to comment on subject of it

3.

the

I may mention however

that Shum Thing's dealter was

reported by

me

to

your

Brace

5.

Ihum aking appears

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have been unfortunately led

to

by,

I presume, the representations

F

Mr Tarrant and others, to consider himself.

of consequence,

as

a

prisoner

and he was

subjected with the Knowledge

and sanction

of

the Colonial

i

Surgeon to the ordinary barl

3

in despatch A 14 of 9th Ultim.

4.

from natural

That death was causes, as I learnt from the Colonial Surgeon, the man

having been

им

Opium smoker, and hering

succumbed to enforced abstinence from the drug,

as is common

with Opium smokers deprived of their woonted indulgence.

discipline for

violation

of

rules.

6. I

am not aware of

the

slightest ground for imputing

cruelly to MW. Scott, the bark

Governon,

nor do I for

a moment

question his veracity in asserting

an

intimacy observed between