CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12] — Page 461

In C. S.0. m. 2793.

457

any

matality amongot her papengus. and Iuntainly find it difficult to reconcile the evidence before the Coroner with jeffective supervision of the repel by the Comigration Officer and it will be necesary that Mr Thomsett at once give very full explanations subject as I hold that the character

om

the

of this Government is very seriously implicated by the Statimento made at the Inquest referred to.

Refer therefore at once to Mothe

• Thomsett for report

Signed) R.ly MD.

26th October 1868.

(Copy) Memorandum by bt. G. Phansell for f

Harbor Master and

HongKong

humigration Office of

The "Daspspring" of 893 tans burthen

left here

on the 21th May last loud to telloune with 94 Chimere pofsengers.

Before leaving, the provisions and)

vefed

Av er b

MANEV.

examined in the usual

The took

of the forme for being

aw

w

Coufficiency

80 days' voyage

in accordance with the require.

ments of the Act. The provisions

examined) were...

Those mentioned in

the dietary scale in Schedule A-. They

were all on deck and out of than sundry packages of each article

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