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"India," leaving Marseilles on the 11th August, and we are asked to make his firm a further payment of £300 on account of expenses. We should be obliged if you would put us in a position so to do.

We have, &c.,

SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL.

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necessary unless this appointment can now be made forthwith to take some action on behalf of our clients, as we can conceive that this delay may become very pre- judicial to them."

We have, &c., SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

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No. 154.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street, June 29, 1903. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to request you to pay from Straits Settlements funds to Messrs. Sutton, Ommanney, and Rendall the sum of £1,000 on account of expenses incurred in securing passages to the Colony for the reporting staff and others, and on account of general out-of-pocket expenses in connection with the Tanjong Pagar Dock Arbitration.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

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No. 157.

COLONIAL OFFICE to MESSRS. SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL. [Answered by No. 158.]

GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street, June 30, 1905.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to forward to you the enclosed copies of telegraphic correspondence* with the Governor of the Straits Settlements with regard to the London staff and offices of the Tanjong Pagar Dook Company, and to ask you to be so good as to ascertain from the Company whether they desire to retain any person under the provisions of Section 7 (a) of the Ordinance.

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No. 155.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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COLONIAL OFFICE to MESSRS. SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL. GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street, June 29, 1905. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th instant,* and to inform you that the Crown Agents have been instructed to pay you the sum of £1,000 on account of expenses in connection with the Tanjong Pagar Arbitration.

Attached to 22807

No. 158.

MR. C. H. OMMANNEY to MR. G. V. FIDDES.

(Received July 1, 1905.)

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No. 156.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

MESSRS. SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

(Received July 1, 1905.)

[Answered by No. 166.]

3 and 4, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C., June 30, 1905.

Straits Settlements.

Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited.

We have to inform you that the business of the Company in London was duly transferred to-day to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, who have made arrange ments for carrying on the business of the Company in the future as from to-morrow, the 1st proximo.

The question as to the use of the Company's offices, books, accounts, and docu- ments as well as what services should be rendered to them in the future by the Company's late officers and servants, pursuant to Section 7 of the Ordinance, was discussed with a view to some definite arrangement being come to in this respect in the course of the next few weeks, the Company having offered to give every facility with a view to the lease of their offices being disposed of as soon as the Crown Agents can find a tenant for the same.

We should inform you that we have received a further protest from the Com. pany with respect to what they consider to be delay in the appointment of the Government Arbitrator, the Company's Solicitors stating that the delay in the appointment is to our minds incomprehensible," and that they fear "it may be

• No. 146.

DEAR MR. FIDDES,

[Answered by No. 166.]

Straits Settlements.

Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited.

3 and 4, Great Winchester Street, E.C., June 30, 1905. THE Company do not know at present what clerks they will want temporarily to retain, but they will write us in the course of a day or two in this respect. I have written reporting officially the taking over to-day of the Company's offices and business. I am sure you arrived at a very wise decision at our meeting to-day. I can only hope that until we are in a position to act independently of the Company, nothing will occur in connection with the carrying on of the Company's business that will put the Company and the Government at arm's length.

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No. 159.

Yours, &c.,

C. H. OMMANNEY.

COLONIAL OFFICE to MESSRS. SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL. [Copy to Governor, July 8, 1905. Confidential. L.F.]

GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street, July 1, 1905.

Tanjong Pagar Dock Company.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th instant, and to inform you that the Crown Agents have been instructed to pay you a further sum of £300.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

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