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No. 149.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON.
(Sent 6.6 p.m., June 28, 1905.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by Nos. 152 and 210.]
Matter most urgent. Crown Agents have arranged to take over London offices on July 1st. They will not require staff. Lease of offices should be assigned to them. Company's Solicitors here undertake to raise no difficulty in this respect. On July 1st you should give notice to Company in accordance with proviso to fourth section of Ordinance. If you require names of London employees for this purpose I can tele- graph them. We will endeavour to get Committee to give notice to the latter, but failing this, Crown Agents will give notice on your behalf.
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No. 150.
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS. [Copy to Governor, June 29, 1905. Confidential. L.F.]
GENTLEMEN,
Downing Street, June 28, 1905. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to forward, for your information, the enclosed copy of a letter* from Messrs. Sutton, Ommanney and Rendall, giving certain particulars with regard to the London staff of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company and the allowances paid to the relatives of their officers resident in the East.
I am to request that you will arrange, on behalf of the Government of the Straits Settlements, to meet the liabilities referred to in the letter and its enclosures, subject to such arrangements as may be made for dispensing with the services of the London staff.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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offices, books, and other property in this country at 4 o'clock on Friday next, and we are in communication with the Crown Agents on all matters of detail mentioned at our interview with you yesterday.
We have, &c.,
SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL.
DEAR SIRS,
Enclosure in No. 151.
10, Billiter Square, London, E.C., June 20; 1905. Tanjong Pagar Docks.
We have your letter of the 23rd, which has remained unanswered owing to the writer being away last Saturday.
It is difficult to estimate at all closely at present what the expenses will be. We do not as yet know what witnesses we shall have to take out or what additional outla will have to be incurred as the case proceeds.
ut shortly, the principal expenses already incurred by the London Consulting Committee may ultimately be:-
Arbitrator
Engineer
Accountant
Counsel, K.C., and Junior
Our firm's expenses (provisional) Member of Consulting Committee Incidental Expenses
say £6,000 0
0
J
4,000
0
2
4,000 0 0
21
7,000 0 0
Ja
4,000 0 0
"
1,000 0 0
"
1,000 0 0
£27,000 0 0
We do not know what arrangements exist at present with reference to the Board's expenses in Singapore.
We are taking out a Junior Counsel by arrangement with Lord Robert Cecil. The Arbitrator's fee is not, of course, fixed, and, speaking generally, we must ask you
to accept this estimate as entirely without prejudice.
No. 152.
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No. 151.
Messers, Sutton, Ommanney and Rendall.
MESSES. SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received June 29, 1905.)
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We are, &c.,
DRUCES AND ÁTTLEE,
SIR,
[Answered by No. 164.]
3 and 4, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C., June 28, 1905.
Straits Settlements.
Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited.
In reference to the concluding paragraph of your letter of the 23rd instant, t we enclose copy letter of the 26th instant, received from the Company's solicitors, tc whom we wrote asking them to forward us an estimate of the sum which they re- quired the Government to advance to them, pursuant to Section 7 of the Ordinance for the purpose of enabling the Company to prepare and conduct their case for arbitration, and in acknowledging the receipt of this letter we have taken exception to the amount of the fees proposed to be paid, so as to reserve the rights of the Government should it be necessary to tax the Company's cost of the arbitration under Section 21 of the Ordinance.
With reference to our interview with you yesterday, we have arranged with the Company that for all purposes, the appointed date should be deemed to com- mence at the beginning of the day mentioned in the notice given pursuant to Section 3 of the Ordinance, so that for all purposes the accounts of the Company will be made up to the night of the 30th instant. As a matter of convenience we have arranged that the Crown Agents should take over possession of the Company's
† No. 145.
• No. 147.
•
GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received 9.25 a.m., June 29, 1905.) TELEGRAM,
Your telegram of 28th June.* Do London Committee desire retain any person under Section 7 (a)? If so, will you arrange?
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No. 153.
MESSRS. SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received June 30, 1905.)
SIR,
[Copy to Governor, July 3, 1905. Confidential. L.F.}
[Answered by No. 159.]
3 and 4, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C., June 29, 1905.
Straits Settlements.
Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited.
MR. MALTBY has now secured his passage to Singapore by the P. & O. steamer
• No. 149.
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