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"the China Mail newspaper (quoted

in the despatch) had no reference

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to the above requirement, but to

the latter words

of

the Standing

"Order; vir: "And before going into

Committee on the said Bill the

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same shall be published three

times in the said Gazette!"

The

Bill

"The mistake here pointed out by the :Attorney-General is one of many proofs of the imprudence and unfairness of persons at the distance of half the globe "treating seriously unsupported and unverified statements in Colonial newspapers; and, especially, of founding upon such newspaper report: insinuations against Colonial Governments and Legislatures.

" Bill had been published twice since

the first reading, and it was the

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- third publication only which it was

desired to dispense with. For at

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that time it was understood that

the meeting at which this was done

was the last that would be held

" before the expected receipt of. Instructions for the alteration of the Constitution of the Council, and it

:thought well to finish the "business then pending."

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regards the steps taken and the notice given preparatory to the

introduction

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