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the salary of Warder Lamb, of the Singapore Criminal Prison, has been raised to $840 per annum from the 13th February 1875, the date of the prison outbreak.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
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I have, &c.
(Signed)
WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS.
No. 50.
GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, R.E., K.C.M.G., C.B., to the Earl of
CARNARVON. (Received April 8, 1876.)
(No. 107.)
MY LORD,
Government House, Singapore, March 8, 1876. In reference to my Despatch No. 89, of the 24th February, I find that I have inad- vertently omitted to bring to your Lordship's notice the name of Mr. C. J. Irving, Auditor-General of this Colony.
During the disturbances in the Malay Peninsula, when I was absent from Singapore, Mr. Irving was filling the post of Acting Colonial Secretary, and my thanks are specially due to him for the able assistance which he afforded at this time, when much responsi bility necessarily fell upon him.
I have, &c.
(Signed) The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
SIR,
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No. 51.
WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to ADMIRALTY.
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Downing Street, April 10, 1876. I AM directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to acknowledge the receipt of letter of the 21st ultimo respecting the proposed grant of extra pay to officers and seamen engaged in the recent operations in the Malay Peninsula.
2. Lord Carnarvon is of opinion that the forces engaged should receive any additional pay which has been granted on similar occasions, such as the Ashantee expedition.
3. With reference to the last paragraph of your letter, I am to enclose a copy of a Despatch which has recently been sent to the Governor of the Straits Settlements,† and to which no reply has as yet been received, from which the Lords of the Admiralty will learn that it has not yet been decided bow far the expenditure involved in the recent operations will be charged on the Colonial Revenue.
4. Lord Carnarvon is at present disposed to think that it will only be just that the Colony should contribute according to its ability to the outlay that has been incurred, but he does not at present feel himself in a position to undertake that Colonial funds shall bear any specific charge such as that of the grant of additional pay now proposed; and his Lordship would therefore suggest that the Lords of the Admiralty should at once make whatever grant they may think the circumstances of the case requires from naval services, and that such moneys as it may hereafter be found possible to recover, either from Perak or from the Colonial Revenue, in aid of the expenses of the operations, should be paid into the Imperial Exchequer.
I am, &c. (Signed)
The Secretary, Admiralty.
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ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.
↑ No. 188 of Confidential Paper, Eastern, No. 17.
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No. 52.
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Pall Mall, April 10, 1876.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit, for the information and perusal of the Earl of Carnarvon, the enclosed papers relating to operations in the Malay peninsula and on the Perak river.
You will be pleased to return the enclosures,
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
SIR,
I have, &c.
(Signed)
J. C. VIVIAN.
Head Quarters, Singapore, February 18, 1876. I HAVE the honour to transmit for the information of His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, the accompanying copy of a report from Brigadier General Ross, C.B., with enclosures, of an expedition made by him against the villages of
Enggar" and "Prek," on the 4th and 5th instant, about six miles above Kota Lams, on the Perak river.
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Although his Excellency the Governor had intimated his wish that, if possible, no further hostilities should be undertaken against the Malays, I beg to state that General Ross on this occasion acted quite within the instructions he had received from me. was impossible to allow the continuance of attacks and outrages, however isolated, on working or other parties employed on the Laroot Line, or to permit the villages above Kota Lama to harbour and protect the offenders, and it was necessary to show the Malays that such attacks on troops, &c., would be immediately and severely punished.
The effect has been beneficial, and on my visit to Qualla Kanges from which I have just returned, I found the Laroot Road and vicinity perfectly quiet and uninterrupted.
I have, &c. (Signed) To the Adjutant General, Horse Guards,
FRANCIS COLBORNE, Major-General, Commanding forces,
China and Straits Settlements.
London, S.W.
To Major-General the Hon, F. COLBORNE, C,B., Commanding Forces, Straits Settlements.
Qualla Kania, February 6, 1876.
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I HAVE the honour to submit the following report of operations against the Malays, on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th February 1876.
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The people of Kota Lams on the left bank of the River Perak, having for some time past and continuing to give much annoyance, on the arrival of the Goorkhas, I determined on the following operations.
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I was further induced to carry out these movements, as although the village of Kota Lama on the left bank, the Head Quarters of these people, had been destroyed, they had moved their fighting men a little farther up the river, occupying the villages of " Kledang and "Enggar," whilst their families had been sent to "Prek," about two miles inland from "Enggar." From Enggar and Kladang they crossed the Perak river and continued to keep the country on this side in a disturbed state, whilst they interfered with my line of communications between this and Bukit Gantang, small gangs of them hanging about the road, attacking and murdering individuals and small detached parties, and I was aware that I could not expect the country to settle down or my communications to remain uninterrupted so long as "Toh Sri Lela" and his men held together at the villages of "Enggar" and "Prek" which last was their main stronghold.
On Wednesday the 2nd February some 100 followers of the Raja Muda and Bundahara were to cross the Perak river at “Seyong" and proceed well inshore up the right bank to " Chiga Qualla, they were there to recross the river and make for the village of "Sawa" belonging to "Syud Abbas," it was expected they would reach this village on the 3rd February, on which date I had arranged that 100 of the 1st Goorkhas under Col. Hill should proceed from the village of "Seyong" by a path direct across the hills to the village of “Prek.”
At the same time another detachment of 50 men of the 1st Goorkhas under Captain Barnett should proceed up the left bank of the Perak to "Enggar," where their instruc tions were after destroying “Enggar” to stand fast until joined by Colonel Hill from
Prek."
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