CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7] — Page 477

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For the papers relating to an application made by the

Harbour Master for His Excellency's

permission to take legal proceedings

against the Proprietor of the

"Hongkong Telegraph"

on account of

an article about Chinese Emigration

to Australia which had appeared

in that journal on the 12th July, in which

very strong language was used such as

"sham examinations," His Excellency adverting to the special reason given by Captain Thomsett for desiring to bring the matter into the Courts of Law, pointed out that the printed papers

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which at the request of the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph had been freely given to him contained nothing reflecting on Captain Thomsett or any public Officer. Those papers had been prepared so as to afford full and accurate information on the important subject of the Glamis Castle respecting which an inaccurate version had been published in the China Mail on the 27th of April, but in preparing the papers for the printer, Governor had given instructions that extracts only of certain reports should be published and that the Government Order of the 26th

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the an For the papers relating to an application made by the Harbour Master for His Excellency's permission to take legal proceedings against the Proprietor of the "Hongkong Telegraph" on account of an article about Chinese Emigration to Australia which had appeared in that journal on the 12th July, in which very strong language was used such as "sham examinations," His Excellency adverting to the special reason given by Captain Thomsett for desiring to bring the matter into the Courts of Law, pointed out that the printed papers 471 which at the request of the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph had been freely given to him contained nothing reflecting on Captain Thomsett or any public Officer. Those papers had been prepared so as to afford full and accurate information on the important subject of the Glamis Castle respecting which an inaccurate version had been published in the China Mail on the 27th of April, but in preparing the papers for the printer, Governor had given instructions that extracts only of certain reports should be published and that the Government Order of the 26th
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which at the request of the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph has "been freely given

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