CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 562

to the Board of Trade, to which Reportment

copy of your

will also be forwarded.

have

letter

(Signed) Fredmick Stewart, Colonial Secretary.)

trong trong

26th May 1988.

556

We thank you for the report of the acting Harbour Master

of this Colony enclosed in your letter of date, relating to th

distressed seamen ordered to be embarked on board the friem.

In

reply, we would state that therein to allusion whatever.

is made to our contention, that the instructions

Board

of the

of trade though binding upon the officials who have to siteone. to their enforcement, are to be judiciously applied, and not arbitrarity as we maintain they were in the present instânci

Here were two bessels leaving for the same destination

at the same time; one crowded with Chinese, and no availaste

room for Government passengers: the other not so, and possessed of accommodation suitable for a female with an infant, that were ordered by the acting Harbour Master to Embark. Yet the former vessel was selected, notwith.

• standing the Acting Harbour Master's attention was specially

called to it at the time !!

Honble. 7. Stewart. L.L.3 M.A.

Colonial Secretary

with