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referred to the practice of the Imperial Parliament,

as well as to a precedent in this kolony in 1859, in support of his ruling.

This much however I would

mu-

went

say, as regards the reason thus stated for refusing to place the notice of tion in the voder book, that

my letters to your Lordship, smalosing the pa- pere referred to, had for their object to prefor a complaint that His Excellency had declined to give me an

opportunity to call the attention of the Legislativn bouncil to

matter of great and im- mediate interest to the Community,

and, as an

argument in support of that

complain! I stated

nothing

my opinion that

but a searching enquing such

is I proposed to ask for,

could AL -

move the feeling of scandal which had arisen in the Colony and satisfy the claims of justice.

That

inquiry, relating to the conduct of an officer in the Colonial Service, it sumed to me should, at allgrents in the first instance, be in- stituted here, and it is impossible to deny that the question this at issue

was