CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4] — Page 11

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and Mr. Kussell's protest and statement on behalf of the brown,

the Supreme Court decided in favour

former and sent a mandmus

of

the

to the Police Magistrate to issue the

warrant.

7.

Under a standing

Excentive

Order, the Captain Superintendent of

Police brought

mrry

me the writ, to take

instructions with respect to

it's enforcement. I referred it to " the Acting Attorney General for his adrice, and he recorded his opinion that it was in order and

in

as

accordance with the powers. possessed by the Magistrate decided that day by to Supe

8.

Court.

Meanwhile I received a -

protest from the French Consul who

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called upon me

to cause the Postal

Locking to the last

Convention to be respected.

9.

paragraph in Lord Carnarvon's

FO Despatch No 36 of the 15th May 1875, I wrote to the French Consul stating

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that the Acting Attorney General had

in the

appeared on my behalf Supreme Court to oppose the issue of the writ, but that as it issued under the Order of the Court I

asked him to

give

The

was now

facilities for the service of the legal process. He

wrote in

reply declining tondo dires.

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