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scarcely) have been entirely ignorant of the character of the -evidence they produced while if they knowingly brought false witnesses to the Colony, they have been quilty of the

gravest disrespect to Courts. The Earl

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The Earl Kimberley in his despatch N.43

16th

of the. April 1873 instructed. Wis Excellency that in the case

of

such misconduct

by

a

" Chinese officer he should be

" sent back for punishment to

his

Own)

Government"

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venture to think that the

wilfully) gives falses

seems to admit

consideration, for happen

that

ad

evidence

of further

it may

residentă

the Colony or from other

they

Are not amenable

to the Chinese Authorities and

would escapes

with

impunity

unless punished by the Court where the falsity of the

the evidence

is discovered:. Such

is

manifestly

0

result

undesirables

if

only for the sake of the examples

in a Colony where the Courts depend

so much.

upon

the

evidence of Chinese, whose habits

treatment

witnesses who

of untruth

are notorious

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