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functions of the military authorities responsible for the conduct of such matters within this command.
The Commandant,
Straits Settlements.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
WM. F. DRUmmond JervOIB.
are,
I regret to say not yet settled, though I hope that they may be so before I leave England.
I purpose (should it meet Lord Carnarvon's approval) to resume my duties in the Straits on the 1st December on which date the leave granted me will expire.
R. G. W. Herbert, Esquire,
&c. &c. Colonial Office.
I am, &c.
(Signed) T. C. S. SPEEDY.
SIR,
Enclosure 4.
COLONEL LYNCH to His Excellency the GOVERNOR, Straits Settlements.
Penang, June 21, 1876. WITH reference to your Excellency's telegram of yesterday on the subject of pay to the Battery, Indian Royal Artillery, with head quarters at Qualla Kangsa, I have the honour to acquaint you that directions have been sent to the commissariat officer at that place to make such advance as the state of his funds will admit of, for the payment of the battery in question.
The Assistant Commissary General informs me that he received no communication, nor had any knowledge of the battery having been transferred to the Imperial esta blishment until personally informed by your Excellency, on the 16th instant, of your receipt of instructions on the subject from England.
There are no Imperial funds now available at Penang for Qualla Kangsa, and I need hardly point out the difficulty occasioned by being so suddenly called on to supply money for a service which was supposed hitherto to be met by the Colonial Government.
It is within my knowledge that great inconvenience has been felt by the troops in consequence of no payment being made to them for several weeks, a state of things which might have brought about serious difficulty.
In the absence of any communication from the military authorities in England, I should feel obliged if your Excellency would favour me with a copy of your instructions from home in reference to this change of payment to the Indian Battery, in order that I may transmit copies of the same to the War Office and the Major-General Commanding as authority for the action I am taking to meet the emergency.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
WILLIAM W. LYNCH, Lieut. Col.,
Commandant, Straits Settlements.
SIR,
No. 43.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the REV. JULIAN MORETON.
Downing Street, August 2, 1876.
I AM directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to inform you that it is proposed to present swords of honour to certain Malay chiefs who evinced zeal and energy in the course of the late disturbances in the Peninsula.
His Lordship would be much obliged if you would undertake so to alter the proposed Malay inscriptions to be put upon them as to make them accord with the English version as altered in red ink.
No. 45.
MRS. MORETON to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SIR,
91, Hemingford Road, 3rd August 1876. MR. MORETON is out of town, and probably will not return till the 18th inst. I therefore, return the papers forwarded from the Colonial Office, as I know that without his Malay books of reference he could not do as Lord Carnarvon desires.
DEAR SIR,
No. 46.
I have, &c.
GEORGINA MORETON.
The REV. JULIAN MORETON to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Chilton Rectory, Steventon, Berks, 5th August 1876.
I AM Sorry to learn by to-day's post that some Malay writings which you sent
to my house have been returned to you on account of my absence.
I should feel it my duty to do all in my power that you may desire.
I cannot leave Chilton, where I am locum tenens of the rector, for a week or two, but
if there is haste for the documents I would get my Malay books sent to me here. I m afraid, however, that a nice and accurate knowledge of Malay is required and I know no more than the simplest colloquial use of the language.
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There are refined distinctions of the terme proper to be used to persons of dignity, an important point to be observed in the preparation of the inscriptions which I am told were sent for me to decipher, and I know that I am incompetent for this.
Pray believe me anxious to do the best in my power if you require it, but I am bound to own that my work would not be entitled to reliance in the point I have named.
Allow me to remain, &c. (Signed) JULIAN MORETON.
No. 47.
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
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No. 44.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
R. H. MEADE.
CAPTAIN SPEEDY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Afton, Freshwater, Isle of Wight,
August 3, 1876.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo,* and in reply beg to say, that at the time that I applied to Sir W. Jervois for leave of absence, I explained as far as I felt at liberty to do so, the nature of the business that
1 called me to England, which was the arrangement and disposition of property left to my wife by her late father. These matters which have hitherto been somewhat complicated,
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War Office, August 9, 1876. WITH reference to my letter of the 7th April last,* I am directed by Mr. Secretary Hardy to request that you will move the Earl of Carnarvon to inform him whether it is necessary that the battery of artillery withdrawn from India for service in the Malay Peninsula should be retained for any length of time,
I am to observe that if such an addition to the garrison of the Straits Settlements is likely to be required for some time to come it will be necessary to raise an additional battery for the purpose as one cannot be spared from the Home Establishment, and it is very undesirable that the Indian Battery should be any longer withdrawn from that country.
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• No. 48 of Eastern 17a, June 1876.
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