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The case of death of the man found in the streets and removed thence to the Civil Hospital is, of course, not open to all the animadversions which relate to the particular condition of the "I-Ts'z." But in every other respect the guilt of the "Kwong Kee" whose inmate he had been and which had cast him forth to die was the same.

There is the same confession by the owner, Mr. CALDWELL, before the same Coroner. There is the same expression of that Government Official's opinion that Mr. CALDWELL'S grief is genuine, and that no more deaths will occur under the like circumstances; and there is the same absence of that satisfaction to the public which consists in the punishment of past crimes and the earnest of future prevention.

The two cases therefore appear to the Association so closely illustrative of each other as to deserve to be subinitted together for your Lordship's consideration.

They venture to submit that there is still much reason to fear for the future on the part of the local authority the saine apathy or connivance with respect to matters of this kind which appears in the two cases now in question, and they therefore very respectfully ask your Lordship to give such instructions as will cause the law to be vindicated upon its violators, and ensure its punctual and faithful observance in time to

come.

The Right Honourable

EARL GRANVILLE, K.G.,

I have, &c.,

Secretary of State for the Colonies.

EDWIN PEARS, General Secretary.

No. 1 Report.

THE "I-TS’Z” HOSPITAL.

An inquest was held at the Civil Hospital on Saturday afternoon (24th), F. STEWART, Esquire, the Coroner, on the body of a Chinese emigrant who died in the “I-Ts'z" Hospital.

The inquest was adjourned until Tuesday at 3 o'clock.

THE CHINESE HOSPITAL CASE.

The adjourned inquest upon the Chinese emigrant who died in the "I-Ts'z” was resumed on the 27th when the evidence of the master of the Hospital was read over.

The inquest was then adjourned until Thursday (29th).

THE CHINESE HOSPITAL CASE.

INQUEST.

The adjourned enquiry, conducted before the Coroner in the matter of the "I-Ts'z" arising from the discovery of a dead body therein, was resumed.

We, however, consider that a further continuance of the "I-Ts'z" in any shape is neither desirable nor necessary in this Colony, and that a more suitable building be selected as a hospital for Chinese only, subject to proper inspection by the Colonial Surgeon.