CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 77

It

extracto

Grace

are

is as

given, and

therefore your

competent and more so than

myself to decide how far the conclusions

are

drawn from admitted premises conect. It is, however, different when

allegations

are

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put forward in the petition

professing to describe local mattero and

feelings of the present day.

In

one on

jituo such points the enclosed petition

is calculated to

convey very untruthful

impresions, and I therefore proceed to

tpoint them out.

b. The petitioners state, when

petitioners state when describing bolumn 3. the necessity which compelled me in 1866 an Ordinance establishing Stamp

to pap

זן

duties, that this New Tax frightens the Chinese and endangers the Commercial

1

existence of the

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CH

along

of the bolony ye ye. This frightening of the Chinese has all been a staple commodity with the Editor of the Daily Prep and present Secretary of the Reform Apociation. Most reprehensible and untrue statements were hom time to time put forward to influence.

the

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bhinese in a similar manner against the Harbor and boasts Ordinances alss against the New Registration Castinence, and it is much to the credit of the bhinese that, although the most mischievous untruths were in this manner circulated amongst them, not merely through the Medium of an English paper, but by Edition of the same, those Ordinances

means

of

a

Chinese

!