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crime compared with previous years, together with official reports on the subject, and I deal, I hope finally (except in the ordinary routine of a Governor's administrative work), with some long debated questions as to the best mode of treating Chinese criminals.
In the Chief Justices Report
2.
in which he is good enough to
express his hearty approva of reforms introdused of
the
late
years,
He is
Honor says the changes were not generally approved of at first-referring
no doubt to the views expressed by
Mr Keswick
and
Gentlemen who
other European
who got up the
•
Daily Press"
112a March 1880.
Public Meeting of October 1878, and to the
views put forward with ability and geal
in the pages of the Daily Trees" and one of the other English newspapers in this
Colony.
J
am happy to sayf
some of
that
the promoters of the meeting
who moved or
and some of those seconded resolutions in favour of floggings it's, have come to me to express their regret at having been induced by Ms Kewick or others to take any part in the meeting; and the journal that was most active and influential for a year or tivo in opposing
may
hara
mode of dealing with crime has
fairly expressed the public opinion of
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