being taken to clear the Public Works Department from the charges made by the Hong Kong Telegraph.
This Excellency, I am sure, will agree with me that it is no less due to the Government than to myself that the grave allegations of the "Hong Kong Telegraph" should not pass unnoticed.
I should therefore, should the Attorney General's opinion happen unfortunately to be unfavourable to a criminal prosecution of the Editor of the Hong Kong Telegraph, trust that he may at least be found worthy of publicly elucidating the truth or otherwise of his statements.
This may perhaps be done by a letter to him from the Crown Solicitor framed in the terms of the enclosed draft.
I have, etc.,
(Signed) J. M. Price
Surveyor General
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(Signed) J. M. Price
Surveyor General
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