CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 86

83

35

It might be well if Captain Dueat would confer with Mr Russell and Mr. Creagh on the subject, and then consult some of the leading Chinese residents, such as the Acting

| Colonial Secretary might suggest. of Chines

I should be glad to give a small personal subscription_ say $100.

a

a year to such a society

and if it really tended to diminish reconviction's I might be justified in adding something from the Prison Contingencies.

With reference to the Attorney General's letter, inform him that I have read the judgments in the local paper of the 14th instant where I

assume

have been printed from the written

they

the the

drafts.

Say that as far as I can gather from those judgments, one point to

which I had caused the Attorney. General's attention to be drawn in the

case

seems

of Wongst Po attention: that point,

to have escaped

was that the

Acting Superintendent of the Prison had: by his own authority imposed upon the prisoner seven consecutive days of

solitary confinement on rice and water:

where as both the Ordinance and the

Prison Regulations prescribe that such imprisonment should not exceed three days.

Add that I do not clearly

from the judgments what was the

Jee

S