CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6] — Page 98

published in the Government Gazette on the 30th January, 1886, for 1885, which were AVA OPE

than five weeks before the date of the Committee's Report, affords a sufficient vindication of the working of the Police Force. I doubt whether any Police Force dealing with an average of 7500 Cases a year, independent of those heard on summons, without even taking into consideration the peculiar position of this Colony, separated as it is by an invisible line from a Country having a barbaric system of administration of justice, could have passed through so trying an examination with less damage to the credit of its Superior Officers. I disregard the evidence as much as I can, as it was given confidentially, but the impression conveyed to my mind is that a petitio principii is strongly marked in several of the questions. I am compelled to allude to these facts, they oblige me to enter fully into the consideration of the remaining paragraphs of the report. It is necessary to bear in mind that this inquiry was instituted some seven months after the riot that took place in October, 1884, when I was on my way returning to the Colony. On return, I found a marked change in the general demeanour of the populace and a special Peace Preservation Ordinance in force. The Chinese feeling against Europeans was aroused by the Franco-Chinese War, and although the better informed classes of the native residents were aware of this,

you a date of the Committees Report, affords a sufficient vindication of the working of the Police - (Exposure E!). I doubt whether any Police Force dealing with an average of 7500 Cases a year, independent of these heard on summons, without even taking into consideration the peculiar position of this Colony, separated as it is by an invisible line from a Country having a barbaric system of administration of justice, could have passed through so leading an examination with less damage to the credit of its Superior Officers. I disregard the evidence as much as I can, as it was given confidentially, 257 96 to my mind the impression conveyed is that a petitio principii is strongly marked in several of the questions. I am compelled to allude to these facts, they oblige me to enter fully into the consideration of the remaining paragraphs of the report. It is necessary to bear in mind that this inquiry was instituted some seven months after the riot that took place in October, 1884, when I was on my way returning to the Colony. On return, I found a marked change in the general demeanour of the populace and a special Peace Preservation Ordinance in force. The Chinese feeling against Europeans was aroused by the Franco-Chinese War, and although the better informed classes of the native residents were aware of you.

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published in the Government Gazette on the 30th January, 1886, for 1885, AVA OPE

than five weeks before the date of the Committee's Report, affords a sufficient vindication of the working of the Police Force. I doubt whether any Police Force dealing with an average of 7500 Cases a year, independent of those heard on summons, without even taking into consideration the peculiar position of this Colony, separated as it is by an invisible line from a Country having a barbaric system of administration of justice, could have passed through so trying an examination with less damage to the credit of its Superior Officers. I disregard the evidence as much as I can, as it was given confidentially, but the impression conveyed to my mind is that a petitio principii is strongly marked in several of the questions. I am compelled to allude to these facts; they oblige me to enter fully into the consideration of the remaining paragraphs of the report. It is necessary to bear in mind that this inquiry was instituted some seven months after the riot that took place in October, 1884, when I was on my way returning to the Colony. On my return, I found a marked change in the general demeanour of the populace and a special Peace Preservation Ordinance in force. The Chinese feeling against Europeans was aroused by the Franco-Chinese War, and although the better-informed classes of the native residents were aware of this,

published in the Government Gazette on the 30th January, 1886, for 1885, which were AVA OPE

than five weeks before the date of the Committee's Report, affords a sufficient vindication of the working of the Police Force. I doubt whether any Police Force dealing with an average of 7500 Cases a year, independent of those heard on summons, without even taking into consideration the peculiar position of this Colony, separated as it is by an invisible line from a Country having a barbaric system of administration of justice, could have passed through so trying an examination with less damage to the credit of its Superior Officers. I disregard the evidence as much as I can, as it was given confidentially, but the impression conveyed to my mind is that a petitio principii is strongly marked in several of the questions. I am compelled to allude to these facts, they oblige me to enter fully into the consideration of the remaining paragraphs of the report. It is necessary to bear in mind that this inquiry was instituted some seven months after the riot that took place in October, 1884, when I was on my way returning to the Colony. On return, I found a marked change in the general demeanour of the populace and a special Peace Preservation Ordinance in force. The Chinese feeling against Europeans was aroused by the Franco-Chinese War, and although the better informed classes of the native residents were aware of this,