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made on mich an occasion was a
breach of the etiquette that ought to exist between members of the same service and entrusted with the sume -duty of administering the law.
The Magistrates are quite prepared to defend their actions when regret
called upon to do so, and we,
that Stis Stouour should have but him.
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self to an ex parte" condemnation of these Officers in the discharge of their official duties without any previous reference to them, and in
ignorance reasons which prompted their
of
the
decisions.
The Magistrates
quite.
ausions as His Stonour to properly ad- minister the laws, tempering justice with dure deference to the surrounding circumstances of each
with
mercy,
cave, and we decline to be branded.
as harsh and
arbitrary, because our
sentences happen not to be in accord
with
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with the comewhat questionable news
of His Stonour.
We have the honour to ack
permission to communicate our protes
to the public press
so that it may
tain the same publicity
al
ad www at -
corded to the remarks of Stis Stounour.
the Acting Chief Justice
.
We have re
(8€) H. E. Wodehouse, (S?) W. C. H. Stastings. Police Magistrates.
ton: J. St. Stewart Lockhart, Acting Colonial Secretary
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