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I trust that this indiscretion,

competent legal advice.

which I do not doubt, proanded,

6 from

a mistaken seure

of duty, will not

be repeated, and that Mr fister will;

in his

public capacity, refrain absolutely from giving legal advice

of any

Kind.

"I must further raniank that, if a Magistrate really took the course of consulting the Frodeurer out of Count with regard

to

an undecided.

case before him, Mr Lister, had he given corridenation to the matter, _ would scarcely have reported the fact official minute, without a far more imperative necessity for doing

appears to have existed ___

in aw

do

than

in this case.

Vaux

801 GM DeeVene Governor

5th May

1888.

DRAFT.

No. 106 Gov.

X

134

11776 HongHong

виж

19. G.

des Vaux

кста

MINUTE.

Mr. Xucas 19. Pearson

Mr.

Mr. Wingfield.

Mr. Bramston.

Mr. Meade.

Sir R. Herbert.

Lord Onslow.

Sir H. T. Holland,

гу

Sin

440

22

bune. 88.

June I have the honour to

Ack: the receipt of desp:

No. 134.

your

the

8th of May enclosing a letter from Mr. Ewens in which he complains of the action of the government in regard to the a case

in which a client of his, named Ho Kai, was prose

prase.

・cated by the opium former;

and claims remission of the firme imposed upon him,

and compensation for the