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No. 65.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON.
(Paraphrase.)
(Sent 5.25 p.m., March 27, 1905.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 66.]
Matter most urgent. I am informed by the Tanjong Pagar Committee that you will not allow amendment to enable English Counsel to appear in arbitration. I consider that provision should be made for this in the Ordinance. You are, I pre- sume, aware that I contemplate employment of English Counsel on behalf of the Government of the Straits Settlements.
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No. 66.
GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON to MR. LYTTELTON.
(Paraphrase.)
(Received 8.45 a.m., March 28, 1905.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by Nos. 68 and 71.]
In reply to your telegram of the 27th,* I had no information that you proposed to employ English Counsel for the arbitration. I would deprecate the heavy expense involved in such a course. The Company proposed to brief Cripps, K.C. I opposed the amendment as involving unnecessary waste of public money.
The Bill leaves Committee to-day and it is not desirable to recommit it. Unless you have an understanding with the Company as to the status of the Counsel to be allowed, I hope you will not press for amendment to Bill. If an agreement as to Counsel has been arrived at, I can introduce later a short amendment of the Bill.
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advised to postpone his visit to Colombo and Singapore until the autumn, when he could satisfy himself by the result of Mr. Warren's survey as to many important questions affecting the contract for the wet dock.
2. In his reply of the 2nd of March, Sir John Anderson requested reference to the 44th paragraph of Messrs. Matthews and Nicholson's report, în which, after dis- cussion with Mr. Nicholson, he concurred, and stated that he was informed that full surveys and preliminaries had already been made by the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company. In these circumstances, he deprecated the detention of Mr. Warren on the ground that the staff of the Company was competent to supply any information which you might desire. He was of opinion that Mr. Nicholson was fully competent to act as Resident Engineer for the proposed works, which were mainly designed by him, and he regarded it as essential that his services should be retained to superintend their execution.
3. Mr. Lyttelton replied on the 10th of March stating that the suggestion that Mr. Warren should procure data was made because it was thought that this course would prove convenient to Mr. Nicholson, who had many other duties to perform, and that you were prepared, if Sir John Anderson preferred it, to entrust the super- vision of further surveys to Mr. Nilson. In order, however, to enable you to prepare the contract documents, it was essential that some engineer who had taken part in the surveys should return to London on their completion and assist in your office, and, therefore, it was recommended that Mr. Warren should act as Mr. Nichol- son's principal survey assistant, and should return to your office on the completion of the work of collecting data.
4. Mr. Lyttelton has now received a telegram from Sir John Anderson in which he states that he has summoned Mr. Warren to Singapore to consult with himself and Mr. Nicholson.
Messrs. Coode, Son and Matthews,
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No. 68.
I am, &c.,
M. A. CAMERON.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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No. 67.
CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received March 29, 1905.)
Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., March 28, 1905. Singapore Harbour-Tanjong Pagar Dock.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st March, No. 8122/1905, † and its enclosures respecting the Tanjong Pagar Docks, Singapore, and to forward, for the information of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, a copy of a letter which we have addressed to the Consulting Engineers on the subject.
I have, &c.,
M. A. CAMERON.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON.
(Paraphrase.)
(Sent 8.30 p.m., March 29, 1905.) TELEGRAM.
In reply to your telegram of yesterday, I am clear that it would be impossible to refuse to allow English Counsel to appear for the Company. The Ordinance must, therefore, be recommitted for the addition of the necessary clause or an amending Ordinance must be passed.
Referring to your despatch, confidential, of February 13th, I am considering arrangements, including engineering evidence. Impossible to spare Bostock from Ceylon.
It will be necessary to send out eminent Counsel from England, and, therefore, I think it better that Collyer should continue to act as Attorney-General until the conclusion of the arbitration.
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Enclosure in No. 67.
March 28, 1905. WITH reference to unofficial communications which have, we understand, passed between you and the Colonial Office, I have to inform you that on the 28th of February the Secretary of State telegraphed to the Governor of the Straits Settle- ments that you advised that the Tanjong Pagar Wet Dock should be constructed by contract and not on the departmental system and that, before calling for tenders, further surveys and preliminaries were necessary which you proposed to entrust to Mr. Warren, then at Penang. It was added that Mr. Matthews was medically
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SIR,
No. 69.
CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received April 1, 1905.)
Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., March 31, 1905. Singapore Harbour-Tanjong Pagar Dock.
IN continuation of our letter of the 28th March,‡ I have the honour to transmit. for the information of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, a copy of Messrs. Coode, Son, and Matthews's reply to our letter of that date on the subject of the Tanjong Pagar Docks, Singapore.
No. 66.
† No. 61,
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I have, &c.,
M. A. CAMERON.
‡ No. 67.
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