CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 16

to the information they had previously given porn to the Superintendent ·

In the meantime the

Superintendench had been informed

that som

of "

the people already

on

"

board the Portland were detained

teris will. The

againet information

lane

was also conveyed

to the Emigration Officers. In conse=

nee the superintendent of Polica firch, and the Emigration

-qurnes

Micar later on the same day,

to the Thip exparately,

werk off th

apparculty without

any

arid

Commu=

_nication with each Meer, to

examine the people. To the Super- cintendent of Police all expressed thermselors satisfied

and willing

to proceed. to the Emigration Agent

some

of hesitation, exprepor

I the

the women, apten

Londo

14

a desire to go

theep were

the

home- but the surn said

withing to smigrate. The smigration

of

offices attributes the answer women to the natural appectionsion caused by the repeated inquiry addressed to them within a peco hours by tive Government officers. This might well be the case. The circum =

livo

stance was calculated to

create alarm in the minds of

ignorant and timis 5 The nexh

day

women

Met Sobschied

wrote to the Netherlands Consul to

say

that he had thrown up

the

(harter of the Portland". He said

that he had examined the

Emigrants and found almost