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there is no material improve ment in the aspect of affairs therein reported, and that notwithstanding every effort on the part of the Government to bring the misguided coolies to reason, the strike still
continues to the great detri- ment of the commercial interests of the Colony and
to the serious inconvenience
of the public generally.
2.
This unsatisfactory
state of things is unfortunate
ly
ly in a large
measure due
to the ill-timed intervention
of the mercantile community through its representative - Committee and to what I con
sider the ill-considered and
unauthorised action adopted by that Committee independent. ly of the Government. In order to explain the position of affairs clearly to Your Lordship, it will be necessary to follow of events during
more
the course
the past week some what in
the past 1
detail