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GENTLEMEN,

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Enclosure 3 in No. 341.

Messrs. LAING AND CRUICKSHANK to CROWN AGENTS.

3, Draper's Gardens, London, E.C., May 11, 1906. YOUR letter, D./Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, of the 10th May. In com- pliance with the request contained in the above letter, we enclose the circular from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited, which please return in due course.

Yours, &c.,

LAING AND CRUICKSHANK.

The Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited, Singapore,

DEAR SIR OR Madam,

March 5, 1906. A PRINTED form of a power of attorney to provide for the receipt of, and discharge for, moneys that may become due to members of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited, resident out of the Colony, by local residents, either by way of interest or in respect of any award that may be given in the arbitra- tion, has been prepared, and may be had free of charge upon application to the undersigned.

Those persons who are acting for absent shareholders and who have not already lodged for registration with the Company a power of attorney providing for the above should obtain a copy for execution.

Secretary's Office,

Tanjong Pagar,

Singapore.

To Miss Stevenson.

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GENTLEMEN,

Yours, &c.,

J. S. M. RENNIE,

Secretary.

No. 342.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

in

Downing Street, May 23, 1906. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of letter

your of the 14th instant* and to inform you that he has no instructions to give you the matter to which your correspondence with Messrs. Laing and Cruickshank relates.

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you that we have now received a letter from Mr. Inglis in which he states that he is in communication with Sir Edward Boyle on the subject, and that he would write us further in due course.

We have, &c.,

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SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL

No. 344.

ACTING GOVERNOR SIR W. T. TAYLOR to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received May 26, 1906.)

(No. 155.) MY LORD,

Government House, Singapore, May 2, 1906. In reply to your Lordship's despatch, No. 66, of the 30th March, asking for information as to the circumstances under which certain advances were paid to the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, and the form of receipt given for those payments, I have the honour to report as follows:-

The advances made to the Company amounted in all to $74,000, as stated in Messrs. Sutton, Ommanney and Rendall's letter of the 23rd March,† and were paid on the following dates:-

On 11th August

8th September 20th October

"

13th November

7th December

$

2,000

2,000

50,000

10,000

10,000

It is understood that Messrs. Sutton, Ommanney and Rendall are already in possession of the circumstances under which the last two advances of $10,000 each were made, and that it is in respect of the first three advances only that information is now required. The first of these advances, that of the 11th August, was made in response to an application from the Company's Secretary for "funds necessary to carry on the business of the Company." The second advance was similar, the application being made for "an advance to cover current expenses of the Company." In the case of the third advance (the $50,000 paid on the 20th October), the letter from the Secretary stated that the advance was required" for payment towards the expenses and fees of the Company's legal advisers and expert assistants, and for other incidental expenses of the preparation of the case."

Copies of the receipts are forwarded herewith.

I have, &c.,

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

Enclosure in No. 344.

W. T. TAYLOR.

Reference :--

C.O. 882

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No. 343.

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

(Received May 26, 1906.) '

SIR,

[Copy to Governor, May 29, 1906. Confidential. L.F.]

3 and 4, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C.,

Straits Settlements.

Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited.

May 25, 1906.

In reference to our letter to you of the 9th instant, and to a communication we made to Mr. Inglis on the 15th instant drawing his attention to the contentions of the Government raised in the notice enclosed in our letter of the 9th instant, and requesting a definite decision as to whether or not the members of the Court were prepared to entertain the application contained in such notice, we have to inform

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• No. 341.

Singapore, August 11, 1905.

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ADVANCES MISCELLANEOUS.*

"Tanjong Pagar Dock Arbitration Account."

Received from the Honourable the Treasurer, Straits Settlements, the sum of dollars two thousand only ($2,000) being advance to the Tanjong Pagar Dock Com- pany, Limited, vide Miscellaneous 6589/1905.

For the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited,

J. S. M. RENNIE,

August 11th, 1905.

Secretary.

Passed for payment.

E. L. BROCKMAN,

Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements.

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