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No. 141.
GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON to MR. LYTTELTON.
(Received 8.54 a.m., June 19, 1905.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 144.]
Preliminary report on the case in general will be sent home early in the month of July. Local counsel and experts consider very desirable that Lermit [? permit] Trowell
go home with it to help in further explanation of case. Please telegraph wishes of counsel.
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No. 142.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON.
(Paraphrase.)
(Sent 4.50 p.m., June 19, 1905.)
TELEGRAM.
- Counsel engaged for Tanjong Pagar Arbitration advise that a selected set of photographs should be taken to show condition of property at Singapore and Penang on 1st July. Tomlinson and Warren should advise as to the portions of which photo- graphs should be taken.
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No. 143.
CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received June 21, 1905.)
[Copy to Governor, June 23, 1905. Confidential. L.F.]
SIR,
Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., June 20, 1905. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 14th (No. 13414) and 16th (No. 20564) instant,* and to state that we will arrange to take over the London business of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, provisionally, on the 1st July.
We have made enquiries on the premises and find that the lease of the office is at Singapore and that it would be necessary for an assignment of it to be sealed by the Company there. As the business will be entirely transferred to this office it is desirable that the Company's premises should be disposed of as soon as possible, and we would, therefore, suggest that a telegram should be sent requesting the Com- pany to assign the lease to us and forward it. In the meantime we will endeavour to find a purchaser, and it might expedite the transaction if the local authorities would inform us by telegram when the assignment has been executed.
We propose to take over temporarily one of the clerks in the Company's office. In the ordinary course we should now proceed to give the staff one month's notice or whatever might be considered reasonable, but we understand that this matter is specially dealt with in the Colonial Ordinance.
We gather that the expenses of the Company's offices exceeded £2,500 a year. The store business in 1904 was about £52,000, so that on a commission of 1 per cent. our receipts on this account would not much exceed one-fifth of the Company's expenses. We propose, however, not to make any suggestions in this matter until we have had experience of the character of the work and the requirements of the Board.
• Nos. 134 and 140.
I have, &c.,
W. H. MERCER.
No. 144.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON.
(Sent 5.50 p.m., June 22, 1905.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 161.]
Referring to your telegram of June 18.* Trowell should bring home report. Very desirable that he should arrive by July 29 in order to confer with Solicitor before departure. See my telegram of June 13.t
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No. 145.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MESSRS. SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL. [Copy to Governor, June 23, 1905. Confidential. L.F.]
GENTLEMEN,
[Answered by Nos. 147 and 151.]
Downing Street, June 23, 1905.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, for your
Governor, Telegram, 16th June, 1905. Governor, Telegram, 19th June, 1905.
To Governor, Telegram, 19th June, 1905. To Governor, Telegram, 22nd June, 1905. Crown Agents, 20th June, 1905.
information, the correspondence noted in the margin, respecting the Tanjong Arbitration.
Pagar
With reference to the suggestions of the Crown Agents as to the assignment of the lease of the London Office, I am to observe that the local board would probably decline to act without reference to their solicitors in London, and it would save time if you were to obtain from the latter an assurance that they will not oppose the transfer.
The Secretary of State proposes, subject to your observations, to instruct the Governor by telegraph to give notice to the Company on the 1st July that the Government will dispense with the services of the members of the London Com- mittee, Agents in Penang, London employees, and such directors as he may not retain on the new Board in accordance with the terms of the proviso to Section 4 of the Ordinance.
I am to take this opportunity of acknowledging your two letters of the 14th instant. § Mr. Lyttelton approves your action in retaining passages, and he accepts your view that it will be necessary to comply with the Company's request for an advance. He presumes that you will have to make a similar request, and he would be glad to know the amounts that are likely to be required from time to time in order that steps may be taken for providing the funds.
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No. 146.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
MESSRS. SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received June 26, 1905.)
SIR,
[Answered by No. 155.]
3 and 4, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C., June 24, 1905.
Straits Settlements.
Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited.
We should be obliged if you would give directions for a payment of £1,000 being made to us on account of expenses incurred in securing passages to the Colony
Nos. 132 and 133.
• No. 141. † No. 131. ‡ Nos. 139, 141, 142, 144 and 143.
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