CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7] — Page 400

HONGKONG.

JULY, 1867.

Correspondence between

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY,

(Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL,)

and

1. POLLARD, Esquire, Q.C.

Charges against the CHIEF JUSTICE.

Incloure in Governor

For Richard Graves Macdonnelli

Sufetch 4339 of 29 July Despatch

29th 1837.

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This is the Exhibit A of. E. A. Pollard envern before

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To Her Most Gracious Majesty VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Defender of the Faith.

The Humble Petition of EDWARD HUTCHINSON POLLARD, Barrister at Law, and One of Her Majesty's Counsel for the Colony_of Hongkong.

Sheweth:

That Your Petitioner, having for some years been practising in the Supreme Court of the said Colony, upon local admission by the late Chief Justice HULME, proceeded to England, and, in the beginning of the Year 1855, entered as a Student at the Middle Temple, and was called to the Bar of that Honorable Society on the Thirtieth day of April, a.n. 1858, and returned to the said Colony, arriving there on the Tenth day of April, A.D. 1859, and at once commenced practice as a "Practitioner at Law;" combining the duties and practice of an Attorney, Solicitor, and Proctor, with those of a Barrister at Law, under the provisions of a Local Ordinance then in force in the said Colony, which Ordinance has since been repealed by the Local Legislature; upon which Your Petitioner then commenced, and has ever since continued, to practise as a Barrister at Law only, not only in Hongkong but at Shanghae and other Courts in China and also at Singapore.

That without any solicitation or request by Your Petitioner the late WILLIAM HENRY ADAMS, Esquire, then Chief Justice of this Colony, was pleased to suggest to His Excellency SIR HERCULES ROBINSON, then Governor of this Colony, that Your Petitioner should be recommended to Her Majesty as deserving of the distinction and grade of a Queen's Counsel, and in the year 1865, Your Petitioner was honored by being appointed One of Her Majesty's Counsel for the said Colony, a Copy of the Letters Patent conferring such appointment being annexed hereto and to which Your Petitioner craves leave to refer.

That on the Twenty-seventh day of June last past, Your Petitioner appeared in the Supreme Court of this Colony as Counsel for the Plaintiffs in a case of OLYPHANT & Co. versus Loo AнUNG, Mr. JOHN CHARLES WHYTE being Counsel for the Defendant, and the case being brought on for trial before the Honorable JOHN SMALE, Chief Justice, and a Jury of Seven, consisting of: Messrs. GOTTFRIED CARL RODATZ, BENJAMIN TORIN KINDERSLEY, JOSEPH SEARLE, HENRY WILLIAM Davis, CHARLES TOMLIN DEANE, EDWARD RICHARD HANDLEY, and FREDERICK DEGENAER. That Your Petitioner having stated the Plaintiffs' case to the Jury, called one of the Plaintiffs, Mr. E. A. HITCHCOCK, but as, in answer to a suggestion from His Lordship, the Defendant's Counsel had, while expressing a willingness if possible to settle the case, requested to be allowed to hear the Plaintiffs' witnesses before deciding on a settlement, and also asked Your Petitioner to examine a Chinese

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