CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 146

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by the Colonial Authorities on

expecially

" the subject - more

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they feel no scmple in

" sending this class of men

" to Canton and other Ports to " the Consuls for maintenance

home when

means at all exist

and a passage "either no for obtaining

a passage by " any ship going direct, or fewer facilities than at trong trong

This remarte is cvidently founded on some incorrect information as it is opposed to the facts of the case.

The

instances in which only distressed seamen have & been forwarded to the in Consular Ports are when

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it has been clearly ascertained

that there have been ships. at those Ports loading for England and when the probability has been that - Hong Kong

was not likely to furnish an earlier opportunity

for sending the men direct from here.

thas happened in one

or two instances that from. incorrect advices together

with

my anxiety not to r burden a consul with the manintenance

of seamen, have sent the men too late

to catch the ship by which they

were

to proceed, when

they probably have had to wait for another opportunity