struction put on the meaning
of a Contract of Service
wrong
one
we to
Dused every
earry
out the
Governor's instructions
arvot
to ascertain from the emigrants
if they had borrowed their
passage
when
money.
The emigrants insisted on this point-
all but invariably
the
9.
money
assert that
is their own.
Mr O'Malley's opinion on the construction which His
Excellency put on it
was the cause of
difficult questions and His Excellency
frequently impressed upon
me the intricate and
E
the
gravity of the responsibility which I incurred in
the discharge of my daily duties that I laboured under
constant
embarrassment.
109
I beg leave
to enclose a series of letters
numbered 1 to 8.
showing
the specially harassing nature
10
of the
communications
made
on the subject of emigration
having
On the 11th March 1881
observed that a usually large number of emigrants
proceeding
to Lydney I felt the necessity of calling the Governor's attention to it and addressed the letter copy of which is annexed and marked.
E. ... Do this letter received
11.
Agents.
On the 16th April 1881 the
agents of the British steamship Glamis Castle notified
in accordance
with Section 11 of
Ordinance No. 5 of 1874 that that
ship had been placed on the berth for Chinese passengers