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and fix for her voyage when she left Hongkong, she could, during a voyage which though protracted was attended with no bad weather, have been reduced to the condition in which she is described to have been on her arrival in Melbourne. It is equally difficult to believe that the Immigration Agent at Melbourne, who has had so large an experience of Emigrant ships, should have been mistaken as to her condition.
12. The conclusion to which Mr. D. Macdonnell comes that the mortality was caused by the brutality of the master which, he says, amounted apparently to a "maniacal disease". This conclusion agrees with the view I expressed in the report of 20th March last, and I continue to think that if the Governor does not possess power under section ... of the (Merchant Passenger Act) which requires that a ship shall be properly manned, to object to an incompetent or ill-conducted Master, he should be invested with that power by a local ordinance.
On that point Sir R. Macdonnell will probably consult his Attorney General. The question now in debate is the manner