CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12] — Page 455

2.

451

a

repel which had cleared hence an the 21th of May last with Chinese Emigrants for Australia. The evidence before the bowner revealed facts, which not merely implicated the Master of the vesel but which led

me

to doubt whether

proper precautions, and such

as ar

required by Law, had been tatten by

the Emigration Agent here to ensure the Dayspring's being properly found in the requisite provisions and stores.

12. I accadingly called on Mo Thomsett,

the Emigration Aquit, to give full &

explanations on

on the

the suliject, and I

enclose his statement in reply to my Моето Memo. I

that

ow

agreed with him, however,

evidence

мисло

then too incomplete

Enclosure N. 1.

to enable me to farm

to form a correct

conect opinion,

and therefore resolved to wait further

advices,

3. Last Mail brought me the enclored

Anclame NZ letter from the Governor of Victoria

covering

a statement by the Emigration

Lu

Agent at Melbourne go: 18 the Dayspring. It is

163

Gor? 14088/18

"}

on

the subject of

quite clear from

Eictories that document that Mo" Mardy

was

inclined to attribute to the Emigration

Staff here blame for the insufficient supply

and Medicines, as well as

me.

of provisions and for paking the repel in

he sales

state, andy thought she

manned, to to.

H. Inow

sw

an im

was

unseaworthy

insufficiently

enclose the further explanations

lanne No2 §. received hom Mr Thomsett, and submit