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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.

"

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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