CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8] — Page 349

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prisoners, and therefore in accordance with Dispatch Militay P14 of 8t Movember 1853 from His Grace The Bule of Murcaitle, should be unt & Western Australia, a place with which Hong Kong has few reportunities of Communication.

I lately, exured application to be made to the Superintendat of the Peninsular and briental Steam Navigation Company, hoping that the Company would be called to

cuta into an a

Conveyance of

1

the

arrangement for

by their

then wen

reuels firet to Singapne and thence to Perth, which is in the route of the Company's Australian Mail Steamers.

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however of the

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Superintendent made it pism that this plan was impracticable,

and I have now advertised in the

bazette for a passage for

theme three

prisoners, but, I fear, with in

ししゃ

prozicet

of finding a ship bound to Westum Australia, and willing to undertake

the conveyance of the men to that Colony.

Under these circumstances, and as, in addition, it has been suggested to me that a writ of Habeas Corpus might possibly relaxe

the

prisoners, in the event of the full cxccution of their Sentence beins in

the

Opinion of the Judge