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of

the Governor's Instructions I wish

to record at length the

grounds

ds and

reasons of certain advice given by

me upon two questions brought

under the consideration

The

of

the Council

first question

proposed by the Governor

substance this :-

Anas

in

Whether the Attorney General's Report of October 14, 1881 (the Report upon certain bankrupties

and correspondence in which Wr Gibbous

was concerned) did not

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of July 1, 1881,- and whether the report ought not to have been confined

to the occurrences in the Ng Kew - Bankruptcy and to the position

in

September last and at

the

present time of the Bankrupt Estates vested in Suffam official assignee

at

I advised in the...

negative for the following reason, viz :- The whole despatch was

referred to me

The Despatch

go beyoud

I what

ivas

called for by

May 6, 1881 as

the Secretary of State's Despatch of

referred to the Attorney

General by bolonial Secretary's letter

directed one to consider M. Gibbons

letters and the Chief Justice's replies,

and it also showed the nature

of

the points that required clearing

Under these circumstance up -

of

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