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No. 17.
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The EARL OF CARNARVON to GOVERNOR SIR WM. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B.
(No. 274.)
Downing Street, November 27, 1876.
SIB,
WITH reference to your telegram of the 12th of October, and your confidential despatch of the 18th of October,* I have the honour to convey to you my approval of the arrangements you have made for filling up the appointment of superintendent of the
Police in Perak.
The War Office has consented to allow Lieutenant Swinburne, whom you have selected for the post, to remain in the Peninsula as long as any portion of his regiment is quartered in the Straits Settlements.
I have, &c.
No. 18.
(Signed)
CARNARVON.
GOVERNOR SIR WM. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF CARNARVON.
(Telegraphic.)
Singapore, December 1, 1876. December 1st. Armourer much required to look after arms of police forces, Straits Government, and Native States. Please ask War Office to lend Colony Armourer Sergeant Green for two years.
No. 19.
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
SIR,
Downing Street, December 1, 1876. WITH reference to your letter of the 15th of last month,† conveying the permission of the Secretary of State for War for the temporary employment of Lieutenant Swinburne of the 80th Regiment by the Colonial Government, in the organization of the Police Force proposed to be raised for service in Perak, I am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to transmit to you for the favourable consideration of Mr. Hardy a copy of a telegram this day received from Sir W. Jervois, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, asking that Armourer Sergeant Green may for a like purpose be put at the disposal of Colonial Government.
I am to request that you will reply to this letter at your earliest convenience.
No. 20.
I am, &c. (Signed)
R. H. MEADE.
GOVERNOR SIR WM. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF CARNARVON. (Received December 2nd, 1876.)
(Telegraphic.)
Singapore, December 2, 1876. Indian battery no longer required. Please arrange with India Office for its removal.
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be sent there. A body of nearly 250 men is stationed at Qualla Kangsa, only 25 miles distant from Martang. This force is far in excess of what is required at Qualla Kangsa under present circumstances, and the obvious mode of supplying the company for Laroot was to detach it from thence. But the Major-General in China ordered that the strength of the forces at Qualla Kangsa should on no account in the least degree be reduced. The consequence would have been that, instead of utilising the troops almost on the spot it would have been been necessary to send a company of infantry from Penang (where the detachment is already quite small enough), and so incur considerable unnecessary expense in sea transport.
3. Considering the difficulty which occurred in dealing with this simple question, it became absolutely necessary, in view of future arrangements for removing the troops from Perak, that the military authorities here should receive the instructions asked for by me. The Commandant yesterday received a telegram from the Secretary of State for War accordingly, and no further difficulty appears likely to arise.
I have, &c. (Signed) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS..
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
&c
&c.
&c.
No. 22.
GOVERNOR SIR WM. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF CARNARVON.
(Telegraphic.)
Singapore, December 6, 1876, 1.25 p.m. Please send out forthwith five hundred short sniders without bayonets, five hundred waist belts, with ammunition pouch and frog, all untanned leather, brass buckles lettered "Perak, Police Force; " ammunition boots, one hundred, size eight; four hundred, size seven; two hundred, size six.
SIB,
No. 23.
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
Downing Street, December 9, 1876.
On the 2nd instant Lord Carnarvon received from the Governor of the Straits Settlements the following telegram
December 2nd. "Indian Battery no longer required; please arrange with India Office for its removal." On the second of this month Sir W. Jervois had not received the copy of your letter of the 27th of October which was sent to him by the subsequent mail, but in laying this letter before Mr. Hardy, I am to request that you will state to him that Lord Carnarvon presumes that all the necessary arrangements have been made with the India Office.
I am, &c.
(Signed) -W. R. MALCOLM.
No. 21.
No. 24.
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
December 12,,1876.
TETT
TUT
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:
C.O. 882
GOVERNOR SIR W, JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF CARNARVON. (Received December 4th, 1876.)
(No. 381.) MY LORD,
Government House, Singapore, October 28, 1876. WITH reference to my telegram of the 21st instant, the transmission of which I have reported by this mail in my despatch No. 376, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that the immediate cause of my sending that telegram was as follows:—
2. For many reasons the most convenient place in Perak for the trial of the Maharajah Lela, Datu Sagor, Pandak Indat, and others, is Martang in Laroot. I wanted a company of infantry to be at that place during the trial, and it was agreed that a company should
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No. 18,
SIR,
In reply to your letter of the 1st instant, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon that there will be no objection to the retention by the Straits Settlements Government of the services of Armourer Serjeant Green, provided that that Government will repay the travelling expenses of his successor at Hong Kong.
I am, &c. (Signed) J. C. VIVIAN,
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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