CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6] — Page 484

tong trong

to clear her between

giving shelter

deaths, thereby giving for all her

passengers,

it

would have been my duty

advise that the Vessel did not continue on her vorzage

with so

large a number of unsheltered fièrsons on board.

If it be possible to

call the attention of the Government of the Straits Settlements to the great risk

run by Vessels

passing through

the China Sea at this

of

the

year

si asow

with deak

mo

place

of

bad

passengers, having of refuge in the event

f

(

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weather, I would venture to

suggest its being

I have to

done.

(Signed). M.G. Shomsett,

Harbor Master A

(True Copy)

Acting

Colonial Secretary.