CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5] — Page 114

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Stink pots as follows:-

"The prohibition of Stink "pots ordered by stis Excellency

"The Lieutenant-Governow

Conneil on Au

in

A 16th 187/0

August

has been enforced within our " Waters. The effect has not

"baw to create the panic

"

usually attendant

such

on

amy

change of legislation but only, I think, because subterfuges

to wade the law are botti

"obvious and easy"

"1

Stink pots manufactured at

notice out

//

@aw

be

moments

a few various artiales

of war

ncerparily carried on

Junk;

every

and they

destroyed, a

lass,

the

can be as quietly

at

a

powder

ost trifling being

saved,

"Thus it is perfectly popible

"

for every kink to conform to

"the law here and

it lie

bee always

yil

rished with Stink pots on

furnished

the levast

or in the rivers."

Until Chinese waters

"buseme

A

safer

Joannot think

the Inakh people much to blame in adopting every possibile

or

means

of defence. Sometimes pasengers

shippers insist on the providing "Although the regulation

Master's

"in

made in

purser

stink pots.".

of

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